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Veni, Vidi, Vici

It was thus that Julius Cæsar announced to his friend Amintius his victory at Zela, in Asia Minor, over Pharnaʹcēs, son of Mithridaʹtēs, who had rendered aid to Pompey. (Plutarch.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.