Veni, vidi, vici ("came, saw, conquered") is a Latin expression, words with which, according to Plutarch in his "Sayings of Kings and Commanders," Julius Caesar in 47 B.C. notified his friend Aminius in Rome of the victory he had quickly won at Caele over Pharnaces, son of Mithridates.
According to Suetonius, this phrase was carried before Caesar during his triumph in Rome. By this Caesar was celebrating not the events of the war, as usual, but the swiftness of its conclusion.
