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How hard is Aeneis to read?
The Aeneid
By Publius Vergilius Maro · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,368
- Form
- Verse
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 85 per 1,000
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In our library the Aeneid reads as an intermediate Latin text: its sentences are of middling length, though it needs a large vocabulary. That measure only sees words and sentence length, and Virgil's epic verse adds poetic word order, archaic forms such as olle for ille, and a heavy load of war, sea and divine vocabulary, so it reads harder than a prose text of the same score. It suits readers who already manage Latin prose and want to move on to hexameter poetry.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 64% of our Latin books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
In verse: its sentence length depends on how the edition sets the lines, so the score reads the vocabulary alone.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,368
- Form
- Verse
- Length
- Novella
- 63,815 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 85 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 0%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 34.7% |
| 250 | 45.9% |
| 500 | 55.2% |
| 1,000 | 66.9% |
| 2,000 | 79.8% |
| 3,000 | 85.7% |
| 5,000 | 91.5% |
| 7,500 | 95.2% |
| 10,000 | 97.2% |
| 15,000 | 98.7% |
| 20,000 | 99.3% |
| 30,000 | 99.7% |
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- uolnus×27
- effatus×23
- olle×22
- stridens×20
- adfor×19
- spumans×19
- uolnero×19
- adgnosco×18
- crista×17
- obstipesco×16
- prora×16
- aenus×14
- arrectus×14
- exterritus×14
- fandus×14
- immaneo×14
- longaeuus×14
- propinquo×14
- adloquor×13
- immotus×12
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