Table 1.Frequency of ‘fact’ and ‘facts’ in each of the six English translations of Thucydides’ History
Translator Date ‘fact’ ‘facts’ Total
PT TT PT TT PT TT
Hobbes (1629)
1843
 1 18  0  3  1 21
Smith 1753 11 45 10  7 21 52
Bloomfield 1829  1 23  2  3  3 26
Dale 1848 10 43  1 11 11 54
Crawley 1874  0 78  0 20  0 98
Jowett 1881  0 24  5 10  5 34

Note. PT = Paratext (introductions, prefaces, footnotes); TT = Target text.