Veni vidi vici (in Latin: “I came, I saw, I overcame” ) is famous a Citation of Jules César. According to Plutarque, this laconic sentence is extracted from his report/ratio to the Roman Sénat after its unhoped-for fast victory close to Zela over Pharnace II of the Pont in -47. (Pharnace II was the king of the Bridge that Jules César détrôné in 3 days only).

Suétone gives a different, but noncontradictory version: this sentence would have been posted on one of the panels carried at the time of the triumph of César, to describe its countryside of the Bridge

By its Latin laconism typically , this sentence became famous to indicate any striking down success.

For the Roman author Plutarque, these three words have a very particular Latin sonority. In Latin, these three finished words in the same way have a grace and a brevity which disappear in another language.

Modern recoveries

This quotation many times was taken again and adapted: for example, the Groupe of Pop music Highland named thus one of its individual S, and Rock The Hives groups it baptized Veni Vidi Vicious its second album. This sentence is also the slogan of the American cigarettier Marlboro, affixed on all their products.

See too

• Alea jacta is

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