Back فيني فيدي فيتشي Arabic ڤيني ڤيدي ڤيتشي ARY Veni, vidi, vici Azerbaijani Veni, vidi, vici Bulgarian Veni, vidi, vici Catalan Veni, vidi, vici Danish Veni, vidi, vici German Veni, vidi, vici Spanish Veni, vidi, vici Basque آمدم، دیدم، فتح کردم Persian
Veni, vidi, vici (Classical Latin: [ˈu̯eːniː ˈu̯iːd̪iː ˈu̯iː.kiː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈveːni ˈviːd̪i ˈviː.t͡ʃi]; "I came; I saw; I conquered") is a Latin phrase used to refer to a swift, conclusive victory. The phrase is popularly attributed to Julius Caesar who, according to Appian,[1] used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate around 47 BC after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela (modern-day Zile, Turkey).[2]
The phrase is attributed in Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius. Plutarch writes that Caesar used it in a report to Amantius, a friend of his in Rome.[3] Suetonius states that Caesar displayed the three words as an inscription during his Pontic triumph.[4]
- ^ Ando, Clifford (2000). Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 389. ISBN 9780520923720. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR". historyworld.net.
- ^ Plutarch, Life of Caesar from penelope.uchicago.edu
- ^ Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius from penelope.uchicago.edu