RE: veni vidi vichysoise?

["Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>]

I read somewhere that claimed he uttered this when he conquered Pontus, in
Turkey.

In reality, I doubt he said it anywhere.

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>
> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:40:16 -0400
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: veni, vidi, etc.
>
> Just for the record, the Latin verb VINCERE, generally translated TO
> CONQUER, is conjugated vinco, vincere, vici, victum.  The Caesar
> quote is generaly quoted as "Veni, Vidi, Vici" (of course, the Romans
> didn't have capital letters or punctuation, so I get to make those
> up), which translates as "I came, I saw, I (have) conquered."  I
> believe this referred to his conquest of what is now France.  Caesar
> wrote a book about that war, and I bet if you typed the title of that
> book into a computer translator and told it that it was Italian
> rather than Latin, you'd get a pretty humorous answer.  The title was
> "De Bello Gallica," which translates as "The French War."
>
> Anybody want to lend me a V6 valvesrping compressor?
> Joe Elliott
> '82 GTV6
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