Latin only has six cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative and ablative.
And locative, though its use is quite restricted in so called "classical" latin.
On word order, your're quite right. Word order is very free as long as the words stay within the clause (part-sentence) it belongs in. But in some authors like Tacitus (who I had the mis?fortune of encountering this semester), word order is even more free, such that words are occasionally placed such that it appears outside of the clause it belongs in.
I personnally had greater difficulty understanding Virgil... Damned Georgics! but Cesar is the easiest.
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