SKALD Hobbes · 1675 All analyses Translation Atlas Reader’s guide

English · Verse · Rhymed decasyllabic couplets

Thomas Hobbes

A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other English translations.

Atlas edition year: 1675 · Statistics corpus year: 1675 · All 24 books

93,977words
5,915distinct word forms
0.0629vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)
23.85average sentence length
Hobbes compared with other English translations Copper bars show this translation; pale bars show the peer median for four surface-form metrics. Hobbes Peer median Words 93,977 median 123,889.5 Distinct word forms 5,915 median 6,844.5 Vocabulary variety 0.0629 median 0.0564 Average sentence length 23.85 median 27.28

Comparison basis: other English translations (12 peers). Each metric has its own scale. Cross-language style-group values are descriptive only.

Repeated wording

The translator’s formulas

The ten repeated phrases of three to six words that rank highest when we multiply how often each phrase appears by its length. Overlapping phrases can describe the same recurring line.

  1. “and to the” 35 occurrences · Od. 1.125 and 1.325
  2. “i ll tell you” 15 occurrences · Od. 3.229 and 4.147
  3. “ll tell you” 19 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 3.1
  4. “then said telemachus” 19 occurrences · Od. 1.325 and 1.365
  5. “and all the” 18 occurrences · Od. 2.84 and 3.447
  6. “and by the” 18 occurrences · Od. 2.361 and 3.404
  7. “and in the” 18 occurrences · Od. 3.141 and 4.625
  8. “i ll tell” 18 occurrences · Od. 3.229 and 4.147
  9. “my father s” 18 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.39
  10. “then said ulysses” 18 occurrences · Od. 8.121 and 8.343

Line-window evidence

One Greek word, many choices

Each card follows one Greek word into three visibly different passages in this translation. The Greek line containing the word appears first, followed by the nearby passage in the translation. The listed nearby words show recurring context, not direct translations of the Greek word.

δῖος

dios recurring nearby word 3%
  • ὣς ὁ μὲν ἔνθα καθεῦδε πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
    Greek line · Od. 6.1
    LIB. VI. Nausicaa going to a river near that place to wash the clothes
    Translation passage · Od. 6.1 · nearby words: clothes, going, lib, nausicaa
  • οὐδʼ ὕλαον προσιόντα. νόησε δὲ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς
    Greek line · Od. 16.5
    dinner, sent out to fetch hogs, And fire was made.
    Translation passage · Od. 16.5 · nearby words: dinner, fetch, fire, hogs
  • τὴν μὲν ἰδὼν γήθησε πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς,
    Greek line · Od. 5.486
    warm although cold weather ’twere. As when
    Translation passage · Od. 5.486 · nearby words: although, cold, twere, warm

πεπνυμένος

pepnymenos recurring nearby word 4%
  • τὴν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
    Greek line · Od. 3.239
    Determin’d by the Gods already is, And
    Translation passage · Od. 3.239 · nearby words: already, determin
  • τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
    Greek line · Od. 15.154
    flew, And seiz’d a great white tame goose
    Translation passage · Od. 15.154 · nearby words: flew, goose, seiz, tame
  • τὸν δʼ αὖ Τηλέμαχος πεπνυμένος ἀντίον ηὔδα·
    Greek line · Od. 15.86
    a gold cup, a brave pot or pan.
    Translation passage · Od. 15.86 · nearby words: brave, cup, gold, pan

φίλος

philos recurring nearby word 7%
  • ἐν μεγάροισιν ἐμοῖσι φίλος τʼ ἔσῃ αἰδοῖός τε·
    Greek line · Od. 19.254
    best; Amongst the Greeks he hardly
    Translation passage · Od. 19.254 · nearby words: amongst, greeks, hardly
  • Αἴολος Ἱπποτάδης, φίλος ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν,
    Greek line · Od. 10.2
    receives a fair wind for the present, and all the rest of the
    Translation passage · Od. 10.2 · nearby words: present, receives, rest, wind
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν ἔλθῃσιν Ὀδυσσῆος φίλος υἱός,
    Greek line · Od. 14.515
    sheep, And shaggy goat-skins near laid
    Translation passage · Od. 14.515 · nearby words: goat, shaggy, sheep, skins

τόξον

toxon recurring nearby word 5%
  • ὣς εἰπὼν τόξον μὲν ἀπὸ ἕο θῆκε χαμᾶζε,
    Greek line · Od. 21.136
    bow and arrow he laid by, And to
    Translation passage · Od. 21.136 · nearby words: arrow
  • πολλοὺς γὰρ τόδε τόξον ἀριστῆας κεκαδήσει
    Greek line · Od. 21.153
    strongest it comes to be mann’d. For better
    Translation passage · Od. 21.153 · nearby words: better, comes, mann, strongest
  • μῆτερ ἐμή, τόξον μὲν Ἀχαιῶν οὔ τις ἐμεῖο
    Greek line · Od. 21.344
    handsome coat and vest, Shoes to
    Translation passage · Od. 21.344 · nearby words: coat, handsome, shoes, vest

συβώτης

sybōtēs recurring nearby word 6%
  • ἦ τοι μέν οἱ δεῦρο συβώτης ἡγεμόνευεν,
    Greek line · Od. 17.372
    well the art of begging knows. They gave
    Translation passage · Od. 17.372 · nearby words: art, begging, gave, knows
  • ἀλλὰ συβώτης ὦκα ποσὶ κραιπνοῖσι μετασπὼν
    Greek line · Od. 14.33
    The other three ran fiercely bawling
    Translation passage · Od. 14.33 · nearby words: bawling, fiercely, ran, three
  • βάλλον δʼ εἰν ἐλεοῖσιν ἀολλέα· ἂν δὲ συβώτης
    Greek line · Od. 14.432
    folded up the fleshy thighs in fat. And
    Translation passage · Od. 14.432 · nearby words: fat, fleshy, folded, thighs

Statistical comparison

Against its siblings

Hobbes approached Homer late in life, after his political works, producing a complete rhymed Odyssey that the atlas characterizes through its direct narrative emphasis. The corpus contains 93977 words and 5915 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “and to the,” recorded 35 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other English translations, Murray contains 133986 words. Read together, the atlas context and corpus evidence show how this version occupies its declared cohort without converting length, vocabulary counts, or recurrence into claims about merit, fidelity, intention, or reception. These measures offer a compact view of the textual evidence available here. The emphasis remains on directly observable features of the supplied corpora.

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