1035. The predicate is either a verb alone, or a verb of indeterminate
meaning with a predicate nominative added to complete the sense.
Verbs of indeterminate meaning are such as mean _am_ (something),
_become_, _remain_, _seem_, _am thought_, _am called_ or _named_, _am
chosen_.
1036. The verb is sometimes omitted, when it is easily understood. So
particularly such everyday verbs as mean _am_, _do_, _say_, _come_, and
_go_, in proverbs and maxims, in short questions, and in emphatic or
lively assertion or description: as,
#quot hominēs, tot sententiae#, sc. #sunt#, _as many men, so many
minds_. #omnia praeclāra rāra#, sc. #sunt#, _all that’s very fair is
rare_. #mortuus Cūmīs#, sc. #est#, _he died at Cumae_. #bene mihī̆#, sc.
#sit#, _be it well with me_, i.e. _a health to me_. #haec hāctenus#, sc.
#dīcam#, _thus much only_, or _no more of this_.