Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PART SECOND — SYNTAX, VERBS, Omission of Subject or Verb, chapter 318

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[*] 318. The Subject of the Verb is sometimes omitted:—

[*] a. A Personal pronoun, as subject, is usually omitted unless emphatic:—

loquor, I speak. But, ego loquor, it is I that speak.

[*] b. An indefinite subject is often omitted:—crēderēs, you would have supposed; putāmus, we (people) think; dīcunt , ferunt , perhibent, they say.

[*] c. A passive verb is often used impersonally without a subject expressed or understood (§ 208. d):—

“diū atque ācriter pūgnātum est ” (B. G. 1.26) , they fought long and vigorously.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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