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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin
| | Frequencies for zeus |
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| | Maximum | Minimum | Weighted |
| Corpus | Words | Instances | Freq./10K | Instances | Freq./10K | Instances | Freq./10K |
| Greek Texts | 4844028 | 4461 | 9.21 | 2755 | 5.69 | 3333.08 | 6.88 |
| Greek Prose | 4172940 | 2120 | 5.08 | 1045 | 2.50 | 1387.75 | 3.33 |
| DDBDP Greek Texts | 3515144 | 900 | 2.56 | 632 | 1.80 | 760.75 | 2.16 |
| Greek Poetry | 671088 | 2341 | 34.88 | 1710 | 25.48 | 1945.33 | 28.99 |
| Greek Rhetoric | 611183 | 306 | 5.01 | 93 | 1.52 | 158.58 | 2.59 |
| Greek Drama | 344198 | 1067 | 31.00 | 569 | 16.53 | 742.58 | 21.57 |
| Greek Tragedy | 249401 | 615 | 24.66 | 482 | 19.33 | 545.33 | 21.87 |
| Greek Hexameter | 231322 | 971 | 41.98 | 882 | 38.13 | 922.83 | 39.89 |
| | Maximum | Minimum | Weighted |
| Corpus | Words | Instances | Freq./10K | Instances | Freq./10K | Instances | Freq./10K |
| Aeschines | 44356 | 19 | 4.28 | 7 | 1.58 | 11 | 2.48 |
| Aeschylus | 40104 | 199 | 49.62 | 156 | 38.90 | 176.75 | 44.07 |
| Andocides | 17424 | 1 | 0.57 | 0 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.19 |
| Antiphon | 18159 | 4 | 2.20 | 3 | 1.65 | 3.50 | 1.93 |
| Apollonius Rhodius | 38814 | 90 | 23.19 | 82 | 21.13 | 86 | 22.16 |
| Appian | 222458 | 21 | 0.94 | 15 | 0.67 | 17.67 | 0.79 |
| Aristophanes | 94797 | 452 | 47.68 | 87 | 9.18 | 197.25 | 20.81 |
| Aristotle | 303262 | 18 | 0.59 | 13 | 0.43 | 14.67 | 0.48 |
| Bacchylides | 4697 | 33 | 70.26 | 30 | 63.87 | 31.33 | 66.71 |
| Callimachus | 9538 | 26 | 27.26 | 18 | 18.87 | 21.83 | 22.89 |
| Demades | 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Demosthenes | 294302 | 221 | 7.51 | 50 | 1.70 | 101.50 | 3.45 |
| Dinarchus | 10659 | 7 | 6.57 | 2 | 1.88 | 3.75 | 3.52 |
| Diodorus | 191882 | 27 | 1.41 | 17 | 0.89 | 20.58 | 1.07 |
| Epictetus | 84176 | 106 | 12.59 | 44 | 5.23 | 69.58 | 8.27 |
| Euclid | 152651 | 4 | 0.26 | 0 | 0 | 1.83 | 0.12 |
| Euripides | 147583 | 296 | 20.06 | 238 | 16.13 | 264.75 | 17.94 |
| Flavius Josephus | 467375 | 29 | 0.62 | 15 | 0.32 | 21.50 | 0.46 |
| Herodotus | 184921 | 74 | 4.00 | 59 | 3.19 | 64.25 | 3.47 |
| Hesiod | 16193 | 133 | 82.13 | 121 | 74.72 | 125.83 | 77.71 |
| Homer | 199047 | 710 | 35.67 | 635 | 31.90 | 670.17 | 33.67 |
| Homeric Hymns | 16082 | 128 | 79.59 | 126 | 78.35 | 126.83 | 78.87 |
| Hyperides | 11809 | 8 | 6.77 | 2 | 1.69 | 4 | 3.39 |
| Isaeus | 33315 | 12 | 3.60 | 1 | 0.30 | 4.50 | 1.35 |
| Isocrates | 111925 | 24 | 2.14 | 22 | 1.97 | 22.67 | 2.03 |
| Lycurgus | 10914 | 6 | 5.50 | 5 | 4.58 | 5.33 | 4.89 |
| Lysias | 56314 | 4 | 0.71 | 1 | 0.18 | 2 | 0.36 |
| New Testament | 137850 | 38 | 2.76 | 1 | 0.07 | 19.33 | 1.40 |
| Old Oligarch | 3195 | 1 | 3.13 | 1 | 3.13 | 1 | 3.13 |
| Pausanias | 218068 | 383 | 17.56 | 327 | 15.00 | 346.50 | 15.89 |
| Pindar | 21258 | 110 | 51.75 | 90 | 42.34 | 99.83 | 46.96 |
| Plato | 561388 | 417 | 7.43 | 156 | 2.78 | 237.33 | 4.23 |
| Plutarch | 74834 | 26 | 3.47 | 16 | 2.14 | 19.33 | 2.58 |
| Polybius | 311345 | 46 | 1.48 | 12 | 0.39 | 22.50 | 0.72 |
| Pseudo-Apollodorus | 35087 | 170 | 48.45 | 157 | 44.75 | 161.33 | 45.98 |
| Sophocles | 61714 | 120 | 19.44 | 88 | 14.26 | 103.83 | 16.82 |
| Strabo | 144158 | 84 | 5.83 | 67 | 4.65 | 73.17 | 5.08 |
| Theocritus | 21261 | 44 | 20.70 | 39 | 18.34 | 40.92 | 19.24 |
| Theophrastus | 6716 | 3 | 4.47 | 3 | 4.47 | 3 | 4.47 |
| Thucydides | 150116 | 15 | 1.00 | 14 | 0.93 | 14.33 | 0.95 |
| Xenophon | 312275 | 352 | 11.27 | 35 | 1.12 | 121.25 | 3.88 |
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