Iakovos Polylas

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. “ς το σπίτι” 136 occurrences · Od. 1.125 and 1.230
2. “αυτά πε και” 89 occurrences · Od. 1.365 and 2.1
3. “ο θείος οδυσσέας” 77 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 1.365
4. “ς το δώμα” 60 occurrences · Od. 2.224 and 2.361
5. “και ο συνετός τηλέμαχος” 44 occurrences · Od. 1.178 and 1.230
6. “με λόγια πτερωμένα” 49 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 2.267
7. “η γλαυκομμάτ αθήνη” 48 occurrences · Od. 1.44 and 1.80
8. “ς το σπίτι του” 36 occurrences · Od. 2.39 and 3.329
9. “ς τον νου” 47 occurrences · Od. 1.44 and 1.80
10. “το σπίτι του” 47 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 1.365

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.

Statistical comparison

Against its siblings

Polylas brings the Odyssey into Modern Greek through demotic language and the unrhymed iambic line of folk song, while retaining traces of older usage. The corpus contains 103091 words and 14786 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “ς το σπίτι,” recorded 136 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other unrhymed or accentual verse translations, Cowper contains 115040 words. This is a bounded comparison: the history identifies the translation’s formal setting, while the statistics locate its scale and verbal patterning among the peers actually declared in the source. These measures offer a compact view of the textual evidence available here. The emphasis remains on directly observable features of the supplied corpora.