Although, I've always wonder why in many sources appears "vici" as "vinci" including the book by Suetonius "The lives of the twelve Caesars", translation to spanish by Jaime Arnal ( ISBN 84-7291-770-3), and I've seen the link to the english translation of this article but unfortunately the phrase per se does not appear. Hi you all, I'm a member of the Spanish wikipedia and I can tell now that the article has changed to "veni, vidi, vici".
Can anyone go there and fix it? Adam Bishop 07:26, (UTC) Reply Perhaps that is how the phrase is most frequently phrased in the Spanish-speaking world? Ninebucks 16:18, (UTC) Reply Why would they phrase it like that? Adam Bishop 17:41, (UTC) Reply I don't have an account on the Spanish wikipedia, and I don't know enough Spanish to say anything there, but recently their article has been moved to use the spelling "vinci", apparently under the assumption that that is the correct past particple of "vincere".
#TATTOO VENI VIDI VICI FULL#
The Latin 'v' was often pronounced as a full vowel, rather than a semi-consonant, especially in formal speech. Cameron Nedland 18:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC) Reply Probably more like 'oo-ey-ni, oo-ee-dee, oo-ee-kee'. Modern pronunciation is rufly ven-ee vee-dee vee-chee. Cæsar himself probably said it similar except the 'c' would have been pronounced like a 'k' instead of a hard 'g'. 145.94.142.235 03:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Reply In ' VERY archaic Latin it would have been rufly wey-nee wee-dee wee-ghee or /we.ni wi.di wi.gi/. Some people say the phrase and if what you say is true, than it is even funny when they mispronounce. Adam Bishop 03:20, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Reply Well, oke :-) My Latin is at a level that I can interpret some of it, but not much. "Vinci" itself means "to be conquered", so I don't know why you would write the phrase like that, it would just be wrong if you did. 145.94.142.235 03:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Reply Well, you looked up words starting with "vinci-" and came up with "vincibilis" which means "easily gained" (the opposite of the English word "invincible").
For all sorts of reasons JC is the greatest figure in history - but with that coming out of his mouth, not so much.- shtove 23:46, 8 April 2006 (UTC) Reply I would say Veni Vidi Vinci, and would write it as such, this since I looked up vinci and it was in the Dictionary as "easily gained" and vici wasn't included (See: ). Adam Bishop 02:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC) Reply I recall reading that the pronunciation was probably Weeni Weedi Weechi (with lots of hand gestures). (Or, at least, this is what people guess is the "correct" pronunciation, as in how Julius Caesar himself and other early first-century BC Romans would have pronounced it, at least other members of Caesar's class and not the lower class, because the real answer is probably "who knows"). It was pronounced "wee-kee", while "vee-chee" is a much, much later way to pronounce it. Anybody knows? I'm not sure if the vici part is prononced like the letters "VC" (as I think) or "Vitchee". It would be great to include the correct latin pronunciation. I can't remember the Veni line, but I remember fabricati diem, pvnc! - "Make my day, punk!" which is, itself, a reference to Dirty Harry, of course.
EliasAlucard| Talk 03:23, 04 Jun, 2005 (UTC)ĭidn't Terry Pratchett parody this phrase in one of his novels? I can't remember which one, but he was talking about all the different Latin phrases he could have used that begin with V. Someone should delete 2 of this page, Veni Vidi Vici and Vini vidi vici and redirect the deleted ones to the remaining one, which I think should be this one. No problem, that's what Wikipedia is for! Do you know how else this could be expanded? I'm sure it's used in many more situations, or misused even - I remember a sports reporter using the phrase to describe a basketball game, and he translated it as "they came", etc! Maybe we could add a bit about the grammar of the words, or something. Sorry if my entry was more work than worth.Please do not cuss on these things it is not nice!!!
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