Floyd analyzes the original Greek text in book 19, he believes that the early recognition can be determined throughout the original Greek language of the text, mainly in the lines: “Hò*s pháto, têi d’ éti mâllon huph’ hímeron ôrse góoio, sé*mat’ anagnoúse*i, tá hoi émpeda péphrad’ Odusseús” (135). Floyd translates this to mean: “So he spoke, and in her heart aroused yet more the desire for weeping, as she recognized the sure tokens that Odysseus told her”(135). Floyd notes that this phrase reappears exactly in book 23, after Odysseus has passed the bed test. This is the phrase used in book 23 to confirm Penelope’s identification of her husband, but why would this exact phrase occur in book 19, if she did not in fact recognize her husband during
