It has been well said: ‘An English sentence does not often exhibit the structure of the Period. It was imitated, sometimes with great skill and beauty, by many of the earlier writers of English prose; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage:-- “High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat.”’ MILTON, _Paradise Lost_, ii. 1-5. +12. Help through a Knowledge of the Order of Words in Latin.+--If you study the examples already given of the Period you will see that the +Order of Words in English+ differs very much from the +Order of Words in Latin+. Dr. Abbott writes as follows: ‘The main difference between English and Latin is that in English the _meaning_ depends mainly on the _order_ of words, and the _emphasis_ mainly on the _voice_, while in Latin the _meaning_ depends almost entirely on the _inflexions_, and the _emphasis_ upon the _order_.’ Thus, if we take the English sentence, _Caesar conquered the Gauls_, we cannot invert the order of _Caesar_ and _Gauls_ without entirely changing the meaning. In Latin, however, we may write (since each Latin word has its own proper inflexion, serving almost as a label) +Caesar vicit Gallos+: +Gallos Caesar vicit+: +Caesar Gallos vicit+, without any change of meaning except that of shifting the emphasis from one word to another. The usual order of words in a Latin Prose Sentence may be said to be (1) Particles, or phrases of connection (with some exceptions, _e.g._ +vero+, +autem+, +quidem+, +enim+, which stand second). (2) Subject. (3) Words, phrases, clauses, as enlargements of Subject. (4) Adverbial enlargements of Predicate (though an Ablative Absolute must generally stand first). (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._ [Footnote 5: Postgate, _Sermo Latinus_, p. 38.] 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._ [Footnote 6: Demonstration VI. Sent. 1. p. 55.] Notice here the following special points of order:--