I came, I saw, Vici. I came, I saw, won) is the sentence with which, according to tradition, Gaius Julius Caesar announced the extraordinary victory reported on 2 August 47 bc against the army of pharnaces ii in zela in pontus. Plutarch tells us that: " immediately marched against him with three legions, and after a great battle at zela he escaped him from pontus and destroyed his army completely. In the proclaiming in Rome the extraordinary speed of this expedition, he wrote to his friend mazio three words: "come, see, vici".
