Vocabulary
Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey) uses about 9,000 words, of which 1,382 are proper names. Of the 7,618 remaining words 2,307 are hapax legomena.
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“The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”
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