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When the relative position of words within a sentence may change the meaning or grammaticality, a language is said to be sensitive to word order.

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Does word order really not matter in Latin?

You're right, word order does sometimes matter, but even then, it was subject to stylistic variation. As an example, Sallust in his book on the War with Catiline had this colorful description of the …
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