A surface-form portrait of this Odyssey: corpus scale, recurring wording, line-window variation around Greek forms, and a comparison with other hexameter verse translations.
Atlas edition year: 1849 · Statistics corpus year: 1849 · All 24 books
98,574words
18,344distinct word forms
0.1861vocabulary variety (distinct ÷ total)
24.92average sentence length
Comparison basis: other hexameter verse translations (6 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.
“так он сказал”79 occurrences · Od. 1.325 and 2.309
“бросил крылатое слово”44 occurrences · Od. 1.80 and 4.1
“так он сказал и”32 occurrences · Od. 2.309 and 4.183
“в дом свой”41 occurrences · Od. 1.1 and 1.365
“кончил ему отвечая сказал одиссей хитроумный”20 occurrences · Od. 7.198 and 8.121
“из мрака младая с перстами пурпурными”19 occurrences · Od. 2.1 and 3.404
“мрака младая с перстами пурпурными эос”19 occurrences · Od. 2.1 and 3.404
“ему отвечая сказал одиссей хитроумный”21 occurrences · Od. 7.198 and 8.121
“кончил ему отвечая сказал одиссей”21 occurrences · Od. 7.198 and 8.121
“он сказал и”34 occurrences · Od. 2.309 and 4.183
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 7%
ἢ οὐκ ἀίεις οἷον κλέος ἔλλαβε δῖος Ὀρέστης
Greek line · Od. 1.298
Светом украсился честью, отмстивши Эгисту, которым
Zhukovsky built his Russian hexameters from a detailed German interlinear because his Greek was limited, an unusual production history that gives the atlas comparison real texture. The corpus contains 98574 words and 18344 distinct word forms. Its score-ranked formula list begins with “так он сказал,” recorded 79 times; this first position does not mean it has the highest raw count. For scale within other hexameter verse translations, Voß contains 109003 words. The comparison therefore joins publication history to observable corpus structure, keeping the historical portrait vivid while letting the measurements describe only textual scale, lexical distribution, and repeated phrasing. 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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