After he had conquered Pharnaces of Pontus by a swift drive against him, he wrote to his friends, ‘I came, saw, conquered.’ 1
1 In 47 B.C. Cf. Plutarch's Life of Caesar, chap. 1. (731 F); Appian, The Civil Wars, ii. 91; Dio Cassius, xlii. 48. According to Suetonius, Divus Iulius, 37, these words ('veni, vidi, vici') were borne aloft in Caesar's triumph.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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