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Xenophon (-431–-355)

Project Gutenberg #1181 · EN · 22,839 words · ingested 26 May 2026

Hues

  • Algo: cool tone, rich vocabulary, terse rhythm
  • LLM: bright, convivial, philosophically light Athenian ease
  • Crowd: not derived yet — placeholder colour
  • Blend: Blended 40% algorithmic + 60% llm

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Bar heights are the relative frequency of the 28 most common English function words — a small, stable per-book signature.

Stylometry

Words
21,770
Sentences
2,408
Mean sentence length
9.0 words (std 12.4, p50 3, p90 26)
MTLD (vocab richness)
123.2
Type-token ratio
0.197
Commas / 1k
90.6
Periods / 1k
107.1
Semicolons / 1k
15.6
Colons / 1k
7.2
Question marks / 1k
7.6
Exclamation marks / 1k
2.6
Em-dashes / 1k
2.1
Parentheses / 1k
82.1

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