§318. Omission of Subject or Verb

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.