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How hard is Orationes in Catilinam to read?
Catilinarians
By Marcus Tullius Cicero · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 5,150
- Sentence length
- 23.4 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 51 per 1,000
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Cicero's speeches against Catiline are of intermediate difficulty to read in Latin, measured against our library. The vocabulary is mostly common and the speeches are not long, but the sentences run on and there is almost no dialogue, and what the measure cannot see is Cicero's periodic style, with clauses nested inside one another, which is harder than the level suggests. The rarer words are mostly political and moral terms, so it suits a reader who already handles basic Latin grammar and wants a first taste of real oratory.
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 72% 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
- 5,150
- Sentence length
- 23.4 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 43 words
- Length
- Short
- 12,754 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 51 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 1%
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 | 52.6% |
| 250 | 63.0% |
| 500 | 71.9% |
| 1,000 | 79.4% |
| 2,000 | 87.0% |
| 3,000 | 90.9% |
| 5,000 | 94.9% |
| 7,500 | 97.0% |
| 10,000 | 98.0% |
| 15,000 | 98.9% |
| 20,000 | 99.3% |
| 30,000 | 99.6% |
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.
- pertimescendus×8
- lubido×7
- inprobus×6
- sica×5
- acerbissimus×4
- coniuratus×4
- debilitatus×4
- secerno×4
- amantissimus×3
- initus×3
- inlustratus×3
- inpendo×3
- lubens×3
- multo×3
- praemissus×3
- prouisus×3
- subsellium×3
- taberna×3
- uexatio×3
- accerso×2
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