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Word Frequencies in Greek and Latin


Frequencies for proix

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Maximum Minimum Weighted

Corpus Words Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K Instances Freq./10K

Greek Texts 4844028 229 0.47 229 0.47 229 0.47

Greek Prose 4172940 221 0.53 221 0.53 221 0.53

DDBDP Greek Texts 3515144 94 0.27 94 0.27 94 0.27

Greek Poetry 671088 8 0.12 8 0.12 8 0.12

Greek Rhetoric 611183 175 2.86 175 2.86 175 2.86

Greek Drama 344198 6 0.17 6 0.17 6 0.17

Greek Tragedy 249401 0 0 0 0 0 0

Greek Hexameter 231322 2 0.09 2 0.09 2 0.09

		Maximum		Minimum		Weighted
Corpus	Words	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K	Instances	Freq./10K
Aeschines	44356	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aeschylus	40104	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andocides	17424	1	0.57	1	0.57	1	0.57
Antiphon	18159	0	0	0	0	0	0
Apollonius Rhodius	38814	0	0	0	0	0	0
Appian	222458	4	0.18	4	0.18	4	0.18
Aristophanes	94797	6	0.63	6	0.63	6	0.63
Aristotle	303262	3	0.10	3	0.10	3	0.10
Bacchylides	4697	0	0	0	0	0	0
Callimachus	9538	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demades	2006	0	0	0	0	0	0
Demosthenes	294302	133	4.52	133	4.52	133	4.52
Dinarchus	10659	1	0.94	1	0.94	1	0.94
Diodorus	191882	3	0.16	3	0.16	3	0.16
Epictetus	84176	5	0.59	5	0.59	5	0.59
Euclid	152651	0	0	0	0	0	0
Euripides	147583	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flavius Josephus	467375	8	0.17	8	0.17	8	0.17
Herodotus	184921	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hesiod	16193	0	0	0	0	0	0
Homer	199047	2	0.10	2	0.10	2	0.10
Homeric Hymns	16082	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hyperides	11809	2	1.69	2	1.69	2	1.69
Isaeus	33315	33	9.91	33	9.91	33	9.91
Isocrates	111925	1	0.09	1	0.09	1	0.09
Lycurgus	10914	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lysias	56314	4	0.71	4	0.71	4	0.71
New Testament	137850	0	0	0	0	0	0
Old Oligarch	3195	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pausanias	218068	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pindar	21258	0	0	0	0	0	0
Plato	561388	9	0.16	9	0.16	9	0.16
Plutarch	74834	4	0.53	4	0.53	4	0.53
Polybius	311345	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pseudo-Apollodorus	35087	1	0.29	1	0.29	1	0.29
Sophocles	61714	0	0	0	0	0	0
Strabo	144158	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theocritus	21261	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theophrastus	6716	4	5.96	4	5.96	4	5.96
Thucydides	150116	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xenophon	312275	5	0.16	5	0.16	5	0.16