<P> "Veni, vidi, vici" (Classical Latin: (ˈweːniː ˈwiːdiː ˈwiːkiː); Ecclesiastical Latin: (ˈvɛni ˈvidi ˈvitʃi); "I came; I saw; I conquered") is a Latin phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar who, according to Appian, used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate around 47 BC after he had achieved a quick victory in his short war against Pharnaces II of Pontus at the Battle of Zela . The phrase is used to refer to a swift, conclusive victory . </P> <P> The phrase is attributed in Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius . Plutarch writes that Caesar used it in a report to Amantius, a friend of his at Rome . Suetonius states that Caesar displayed the three words as an inscription during his Pontic triumph . </P>

Who said he came he saw he conquered