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Read the excerpt from the odyssey.what functions as a symbol in this excerpt? treated as rubbish now, he lay at lastupon a mass of dung before the gates-manure of mules and cows, piled there untilfieldhands could spread it on the king's estate.abandoned there, and half destroyed with flies,old argus lay.a. a muleb. the kingc. odysseusd. argus