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At once, therefore, Caesar marched against him with three legions, fought a great battle with him near the city of Zela, drove him in flight out of Pontus, and annihilated his army. In announcing the swiftness and fierceness of this battle to one of his friends at Rome, Amantius, Caesar wrote three words
‘Came, saw, conquered’
1 In Latin, however, the words have the same inflectional ending, and so a brevity which is most impressive.
1 Veni, vidi, vici. According to Suetonius ( Div. Jul. 37), the words were displayed in Caesar's Pontic triumph.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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