A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other Français translations.
Atlas edition year: 1867 · Statistics corpus year: 1893 · All 24 books
118,797words
8,125distinct word forms
0.0684vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)
24.04average sentence length
Comparison basis: other Français translations (1 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.
“parla ainsi et”210 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.1
“il parla ainsi et”157 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.1
“il parla ainsi”174 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.1
“de la mer”99 occurrences · Od. 1.1 and 1.44
“dans la demeure”79 occurrences · Od. 1.1 and 1.230
“terre de la patrie”56 occurrences · Od. 2.224 and 2.361
“ayant ainsi parlé”74 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 1.125
“la terre de la patrie”43 occurrences · Od. 2.361 and 3.102
“et le prudent tèlémakhos lui répondit”34 occurrences · Od. 2.129 and 2.177
“dans sa demeure”62 occurrences · Od. 1.230 and 1.421
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
diosrecurring nearby word 8%
αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ τό γʼ ἄκουσε πολύτλας δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς,
Greek line · Od. 8.446
Ayant entendu cela, le patient et divin Odysseus ferma aussitôt le couvercle à l'aide d'un nœud inextricable
Leconte de Lisle’s French prose deliberately restored Greek names and rejected long-standing Latinized conventions, giving the atlas a sharply defined historical and linguistic point of comparison. The corpus contains 118797 words and 8125 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “parla ainsi et,” recorded 210 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other Français translations, Dacier contains 143271 words. The result is a clearer profile of form and corpus patterning, grounded in the stated comparison group and careful not to treat measured differences as judgments about literary success or accuracy. 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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