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We are investigating methods by which data from dependency syntax treebanks of ancient
Greek can be applied to questions of authorship in ancient Greek historiography. From the Ancient
Greek Dependency Treebank were constructed syntax words (sWords) by tracing the shortest path from
each leaf node to the root for each sentence tree. This paper presents the results of a preliminary test of
the usefulness of the sWord as a stylometric discriminator. The sWord data was subjected to clustering
analysis. The resultant groupings were in accord with traditional classifications. The use of sWords also
allows a more fine-grained heuristic exploration of difficult questions of text reuse. A comparison of
relative frequencies of sWords in the directly transmitted Polybius book 1 and the excerpted books 9–10
indicate that the measurements of the two texts are generally very close, but when frequencies do vary,
the differences are surprisingly large. These differences reveal that a certain syntactic simplification
is a salient characteristic of Polybius’ excerptor, who leaves conspicuous syntactic indicators of his
modifications
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