The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26

words removed
218,787
marks left
32,548
words a sentence
33.6
most used mark
,

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 Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli. More twins

Livy on the shelf

2 books by Livy are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd 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
Semicolons11.211.57.6
Commas96.791.378.1
Colons2.33.01.8
Exclamation marks0.10.12.0
Question marks1.01.82.8
Words per sentence33.632.317.7
Dialogue20%22%18%

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

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