The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

words removed
233,147
marks left
35,020
words a sentence
31.0
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: The Social Contract & Discourses, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. More twins

Livy on the shelf

2 books by Livy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Livy's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Livy's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookLivy's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.711.57.6
Commas86.091.378.1
Colons3.73.01.8
Exclamation marks0.10.12.0
Question marks2.61.82.8
Words per sentence31.032.317.7
Dialogue23%22%18%

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

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