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 th

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