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How hard is De excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium to read?
By Cornelius Nepos · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 5,199
- Sentence length
- 18.0 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 52 per 1,000
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Among our Latin books this is a gentle one: it is rated beginner, so a reader who has finished a first Latin course can get through it with tap-to-translate. Nepos writes short, plain biographies of Greek, Persian and Carthaginian generals, with almost no dialogue and sentences of moderate length, though the vocabulary of war, ships, politics and tyranny (and Greek names and institutions) will send you to the lookup often. The measure sees vocabulary and sentence length, not grammar, so participles and indirect statements may still slow you down.
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 87% 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
- 5,199
- Sentence length
- 18.0 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 33 words
- Length
- Short
- 24,525 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 52 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 3%
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 | 51.3% |
| 250 | 62.9% |
| 500 | 72.4% |
| 1,000 | 81.0% |
| 2,000 | 87.8% |
| 3,000 | 91.3% |
| 5,000 | 94.8% |
| 7,500 | 96.9% |
| 10,000 | 98.1% |
| 15,000 | 99.0% |
| 20,000 | 99.4% |
| 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.
- ephorus×11
- pedester×9
- tyrannis×9
- colloquor×8
- consuo×8
- opprimendus×7
- multatus×6
- nuntium×6
- perterreo×6
- setius×6
- uerens×6
- accusatus×5
- deuinco×5
- existimans×5
- recupero×5
- simulans×5
- triremis×5
- adorior×4
- adortus×4
- antefero×4
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