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Who said ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici’?

It is a very famous saying, that Julius Caesar said at the battle of Zela in 48bc.

It means  ‘I came, I saw I conquered’.   It refers to the swiftness that his army overcame the army of Pharnaces.

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman and general, who was noted as the author of Latin prose.  He played a key part in the historic events that led to the fall of the Roman Republic and the start of the Roman Empire.

 

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