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.