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How hard is Breviarium ab urbe condita to read?
Abridgement of Roman History
By Eutropius · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 5,408
- Sentence length
- 16.2 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 54 per 1,000
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This is a beginner Latin read in our library. Eutropius wrote a plain, compact summary of Roman history from the founding of the city to the fourth century, and it was a school text for centuries. Sentences are of moderate length with no dialogue, and most of the words to learn are ordinal numbers and distances that repeat constantly, so it suits a reader who knows the basic forms and wants a first continuous text.
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 89% 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.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 5,408
- Sentence length
- 16.2 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 29 words
- Length
- Short
- 18,420 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 54 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 | 49.6% |
| 250 | 61.9% |
| 500 | 72.5% |
| 1,000 | 79.9% |
| 2,000 | 87.1% |
| 3,000 | 90.5% |
| 5,000 | 94.6% |
| 7,500 | 96.7% |
| 10,000 | 97.8% |
| 15,000 | 99.0% |
| 20,000 | 99.4% |
| 30,000 | 99.8% |
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.
- miliarius×13
- sexcentesimus×13
- tricesimus×13
- uicesimus×13
- ciuilitas×10
- fugatus×9
- triumphatus×9
- aggressus×8
- regredior×8
- septuagesimus×8
- inusitatus×7
- nonagesimus×6
- quadragesimus×6
- sexagesimus×6
- indictus×5
- inlatus×5
- quadringenti×5
- quinquagesimus×5
- sempronius×5
- amabilis×4
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