Does the verb have to come at the end in Latin?

Does the Latin verb always come at the end of a phrase or sentence? Let’s take a look at actual Latin texts to see if Caesar and Cicero always put the verb at the end of their sentences. Latin syntax is often erroneously thought to be exclusively SOV (Subject Object Verb) but the verb can actually occur in many places in the sentences, including the very beginning! I’ll show you an important observation in Latin syntax and grammar Paper “Evidence for SVO in Latin?“ by H. Pinkster (1990) (1990).pdf Found in Antiquity video about parsing:
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