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How hard is De vita Caesarum to read?
The Twelve Caesars
By Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 11,487
- Sentence length
- 24.8 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 129 per 1,000
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This is an advanced book to read in Latin, relative to our library. Suetonius writes fairly long sentences with almost no dialogue, and you need a wide vocabulary to cover most of the text, including many specialised words of Roman public life such as the circus, gladiators, litters, the praetorian guard and triumphs. Come back to it after easier prose, since the life of each emperor is a run of facts, anecdotes and quoted letters rather than a story that carries you along.
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
Harder 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
- 11,487
- Sentence length
- 24.8 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 45 words
- Length
- Novella
- 70,517 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 129 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 2%
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 | 40.1% |
| 250 | 49.8% |
| 500 | 58.3% |
| 1,000 | 66.6% |
| 2,000 | 76.1% |
| 3,000 | 81.3% |
| 5,000 | 87.1% |
| 7,500 | 91.6% |
| 10,000 | 94.0% |
| 15,000 | 96.5% |
| 20,000 | 97.7% |
| 30,000 | 98.6% |
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.
- ualitudo×39
- lectica×29
- praetorianus×26
- circensis×24
- triumphalis×23
- secessus×19
- gladiatorius×18
- libertinus×17
- amphitheatrum×16
- detectus×15
- scaenicus×15
- neptis×14
- quoquam×14
- quotannis×14
- senatorius×14
- flagitans×13
- percussor×13
- prosecutus×13
- alea×12
- contubernium×12
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