The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic

words removed
241,408
marks left
96,203
words a sentence
5.9
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: Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art, Walter Woodburn Hyde. More twins

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It's the only book by George Willis Botsford on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, George Willis Botsford's punctuation is closest to Walter Woodburn Hyde's.

Walter Woodburn Hyde's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons35.87.6
Commas94.578.1
Colons2.41.8
Exclamation marks0.02.0
Question marks0.32.8
Words per sentence5.917.7
Dialogue5%18%

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

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