(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.
[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.]
[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:--
(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.
E.g. here, the unusual position of +Archimedis+ and +sepulcrum+.
(3) In the middle of the sentence the arrangement is such that the words most closely connected in meaning stand nearest together.
E.g. here, +ignoratum ... dumetis+ is all logically connected with the object +sepulcrum+, which for the sake of emphasis is put in an unusual position at the end of the sentence.
+13. Additional Hints.+--(1) Remember that Latin is often +concrete+ where English is +abstract+.
+ingeniosi+ (men of genius) = _genius_. +eruditi+ } (learned men) = _learning_. +docti+ } +viri summo ingenio praediti, saepe invidia opprimuntur.+ _The most exalted genius is frequently overborne by envy._ +omnes immemorem benefici oderunt.+ _The world regards ingratitude with hatred._
(2) The same Latin word may stand for different English words. Take, for example, the various uses of the word +RES+ in the following passage of Livy, xlv. 19:--
[7]+Ut RES docuit . . . animo gestienti REBUS secundis . . . speculator RERUM quae a fratre agerentur . . . REM prope prolapsam restituit . . . aliis alia regna crevisse REBUS dicendo.+