“In his Pontic triumph he displayed among the show-pieces of the procession an inscription of but three words, ‘I came, I saw, I conquered,’ not indicating the events of the war, as the others did, but the speed with which it was finished.” After the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the King of Poland quipped: “We came, we saw, God conquered.” Upon the death of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked: “We came, we saw, he died.” And even the 1984 film Ghostbusters includes a nod to the phrase, with one character famously declaring: “We came. After reading about the origins of the phrase “Veni, vidi, vici,” discover the history of the term “Crossing the Rubicon,” which is also linked to Julius Caesar.
Author: Kaleena Fraga
Published at: 2025-07-07 23:00:00
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