Latin Word Order

This download includes: - More than 3.5 hours of audio - PDF of the text - The answers to "what is normal Latin word order?" and "what is emphatic Latin word order?" The order of words in a Latin sentence is often called “free,” especially when compared with sentences in English or French or Spanish or Italian, among others.  This is due, we are told, to Latin’s highly inflected nature with respect to those languages: Latin’s nouns as well as verbs change their endings to indicate their function in a sentence. While it is true that Latin has far fewer restrictions in this regard than English, we are also told that the great Roman authors took advantage of this liberty by arranging their sentences so as to give more emphasis to certain words.  But if that is also true, it means that there must be a normal word order, does it not?  Otherwise, how could more emphasis be given to one word or another by changing its position in a sentence?  That would mean where it was before was less mark