This particular passage reminds me of the anti-example in Strunk & White about "Avoid[ing] a Succession of Loose Sentences."[0] I know others have pointed out

This particular passage reminds me of the anti-example in Strunk & White about "Avoid[ing] a Succession of Loose Sentences."[0] I know others have pointed out that the article's point is about those with intellectual or learning disabilities, or learners of foreign languages, but I wonder if this really bears out. Literary Latin is full of (extremely) periodic sentences and once one has picked up on the general prosody and feel of this practice, those sentences aren't particularly hard to understand, even as a non-native reader. [0]: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHwa/page/n27/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHwa/page/n27/m...