(24-09-2025, 09:51 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.A question that I am keen to answer is on average how many examples of repeated words should there be in a typical Latin manuscript of the period. I am inclined to assume that the answer is very few.
If I understood exactly what you mean, I think this depends on the length of the text: the longer a text, the more probable is a word will appear at least twice.
I made a test with De Bello Gallico: it has 11030 word types, of which 6314 are hapax legomena. The whole text is 51503 words long, so most of the text (88%) would be culled by your procedure, but only ~43% of the vocabulary.