# Which kinds of recognition does Butcher's translation of Poetics XVI list, in what order, and with which example for each?

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In Butcher's translation XVI enumerates recognition in an order the text itself gives with ordinal words: (1) by signs (congenital: the spear, the stars; acquired: scars, necklaces, the ark in the Tyro), (2) invented by the poet (Orestes announcing himself in the Iphigenia; the 'voice of the shuttle' in Sophocles' Tereus), (3) by memory (the Cyprians picture; the Lay of Alcinous), (4) by reasoning (Choephori; a composite false-inference variant in Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger), and (5) the best, from the incidents themselves (Oedipus; Iphigenia's letter). The fifth has no ordinal label in Butcher's wording; it is introduced by 'of all recognitions, the best'. This is what Butcher's English says; Greek terms and other translations are left to C3-B001-S1-04.

In Butcher's translation XVI enumerates recognition in an order the text itself gives with ordinal words: (1) by signs (congenital: the spear, the stars; acquired: scars, necklaces, the ark in the Tyro), (2) invented by the poet (Orestes announcing himself in the Iphigenia; the 'voice of the shuttle' in Sophocles' Tereus), (3) by memory (the Cyprians picture; the Lay of Alcinous), (4) by reasoning (Choephori; a composite false-inference variant in Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger), and (5) the best, from the incidents themselves (Oedipus; Iphigenia's letter). The fifth has no ordinal label in Butcher's wording; it is introduced by 'of all recognitions, the best'. This is what Butcher's English says; Greek terms and other translations are left to C3-B001-S1-04.

Curator qualifications: Kinds of recognition with examples (Butcher translation).

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- [sourced_fact] In Butcher's translation XVI enumerates recognition in an order the text itself gives with ordinal words: (1) by signs (congenital: the spear, the stars; acquired: scars, necklaces, the ark in the Tyro), (2) invented by the poet (Orestes announcing himself in the Iphigenia; the 'voice of the shuttle' in Sophocles' Tereus), (3) by memory (the Cyprians picture; the Lay of Alcinous), (4) by reasoning (Choephori; a composite false-inference variant in Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger), and (5) the best, from the incidents themselves (Oedipus; Iphigenia's letter). The fifth has no ordinal label in Butcher's wording; it is introduced by 'of all recognitions, the best'. This is what Butcher's English says; Greek terms and other translations are left to C3-B001-S1-04. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974.txt

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