Via Latina same style and technique. Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later.
Latin word order will often take precedence over a conjunction, and the following word order where the topic (in this case the grammatical subject) precedes "cum" "when" is fairly common: Not every sentence has a topic, but some present information which is entirely new. Pinkster gives the following as an example: Such sentences are sometimes called "presentative sentences" and often start with a verb. The focus is the new information, i.e. the message which is being conveyed to the listener. Often in Latin the topic comes first, and then the focus. For example, in the sentence below, the topic is "in the bathhouse"