Help With Quote From Book 17 in The Odyssey!!?

Meredith N

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"Here comes one scurvy type leading another!
God pairs them off together, every time.
Swineherd, where are you taking your new pig,
that stinking beggar there, licker of pots?
How many doorposts has he rubbed his back on
whining for garbage, where a noble guest
would rate a cauldron or a sword." Book 17, lines 278-84


please explain why this is significant or imporant!?
 
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