Post by Chris_Wendt on Aug 6, 2012 16:43:50 GMT -5
No, this is not a "complete this phrase" game, nor is it a pop quiz about who said it, where, when, and why.
I post this as an occasional recognition that, for instance in the past 24 hours 101 people clicked through this site, but nobody wrote anything, not one word. And, I do not believe there was much if anything new to read.
Okay, there's this gem of wisdom. But no one else has anything on their mind?
To complete the phrase and know the answers, please note the following from Wikipedia:
Regards to all
Chris Wendt
I post this as an occasional recognition that, for instance in the past 24 hours 101 people clicked through this site, but nobody wrote anything, not one word. And, I do not believe there was much if anything new to read.
Okay, there's this gem of wisdom. But no one else has anything on their mind?
To complete the phrase and know the answers, please note the following from Wikipedia:
"Veni, vidi, vici" (Classical Latin; Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈvɛni ˈvidi ˈvitʃi]; "I came, I saw, I conquered.") is a Latin sentence reportedly written by Julius Caesar in 47 BC as a comment on his short war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (currently known as Zile, in Turkey).
Veni, vidi, and vici are first person perfect forms of the three Latin verbs venire, videre, and vincere.
Its form is classed as a tricolon and a hendiatris. The sentence appears in Plutarch and Suetonius (Plut. Caes. 50, Suet. Iul. 37.). Plutarch reports that he "gave Amantius, a friend of his at Rome, an account of this action", whereas Suetonius says "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'".
Regards to all
Chris Wendt