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Note that Virgil actually wrote "...omnia vincit Amor...", not "Amor vincit omnia" like the article claims. See lines 68-70 here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

• eindiran 7y ago
  That's true, but Virgil just changed the word order to fit the meter (see dactylic hexameter[0]). Latin word order is relatively free, so poets would reorder things to make them fit the meter used. It also appears that the author of the article changed from the more standard verb-final ordering (SOV) to SVO because it fits the English translations word order better. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter
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