Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

words removed
182,267
marks left
31,456
words a sentence
26.2
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft. More twins

Marcus Tullius Cicero on the shelf

2 books by Marcus Tullius Cicero are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Marcus Tullius Cicero's punctuation is closest to Hilaire Belloc's.

Marcus Tullius Cicero's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookMarcus Tullius Cicero's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons14.29.07.2
Commas92.283.076.6
Colons3.46.61.6
Exclamation marks1.11.32.8
Question marks6.03.93.7
Words per sentence26.222.217.0
Dialogue3%3%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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