(5) Indirect Object (if any) and its enlargements.
(6) Direct Object (if any) and its enlargements.
(7) The Principal Verb.
To take a simple example:—
| [5]LIVIUS, imperator fortissimus, quamquam adventus hostium non ubi oportuit nuntiatus est, PERICULUM illa sua in rebus dubiis audacia facile EVASIT. | LIVIUS, a most excellent commander, although the enemy’s arrival was not reported when it should have been, easily ESCAPED the DANGER by his well-known daring in perilous positions. |
To take another example:—
| [6]Archimedis EGO quaestor ignoratum ab Syracusanis, cum esse omnino negarent, saeptum undique et vestitum vepribus et dumetis, INDAGAVI SEPULCRUM. | When I was Quaestor, I WAS ABLE TO TRACE OUT the TOMB of Archimedes, overgrown and hedged in with brambles and brushwood. The Syracusans knew nothing of it, and denied its existence. |
Notice here the following special points of order:—
(1) The two most important positions in the sentence are the beginning and the end.
(2) Special emphasis is expressed by placing a word in an unusual or prominent position.