Students asked me today, what survives in greater quantities (just straight word count), ancient Greek or Latin? Of the Ancient Greek and Roman periods, that is.
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If you want visual proof, I just google image searched "Loeb library complete' and a surprising number of images of the full set come up where they are all together. It looks like there's maybe twice as many greens as reds.
I just remembered this because when I did a year as a post-Bacc at Georgetown, the classics department there had a complete set in a room they used for the smaller advanced classes and yeah - a lot more greens.
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The fact that there are more surviving works in Greek becomes even more apparent when you consider a couple factors that make the Loeb Classical Library's overall coverage somewhat disproportionately skewed in favor of Latin. 1/3
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The first factor is that the Loebs only include a tiny selection of the surviving papyri, but yet the vast majority of surviving papyri are in Greek. 2/3
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