felicitous, timely and apt, Veni, Vidi, Vici, VENIT VIDIT, SED NON VICIT.

Veni, vidi, vici is a Latin phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar who, according to Appian, used the phrase in a letter to the Roman Senate ... The title of French poet Victor Hugo's Veni, vidi, vixi ("I came, I saw, I lived"), written after the death of his daughter Leopoldine at age 19 in 1843, uses the allusion with its first ...

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(obverse) Bust of Louis XIV, right, hair long, no drapery. (reverse) Louis standing in a triumphal car, drawn by two ladies of ... Inscription Content. VENIT VIDIT, SED NON VICIT. Inscription Translation. He came, he saw, but he did not conquer.

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. VENIT VIDIT, SED NON VICIT. Inscription Translation. He came, he saw, but he did not conquer.

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medal

• Object type

  • medal 

• Museum number

  M.7862

• Description

  Silver medal.(obverse) Bust of Louis XIV, right, hair long, no drapery.
  (reverse) Louis standing in a triumphal car, drawn by two ladies of his court, preceded by a third carrying his standard, i.e., an empty purse and the figure O: Versailles in the distance.

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  • Designed by: Jan Smeltzing 

• Date

  • 1693

A new case of Veni, Vidi, Vici for Latin in Europe

In the Italian town of Arpino, around 560 high school students from all
over Europe have just gathered for an international language competition.
So which language do they have in common? No, not Italian, or even English
but Latin.

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Inside Europe | 23.05.2009 | 07:05

A new case of Veni, Vidi, Vici for Latin in Europe

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Latin rules once more in Cicero's birthplace of Arpino, central Italy.

In the Italian town of Arpino, around 560 high school students from all over Europe have just gathered for an international language competition. So which language do they have in common? No, not Italian, or even English but Latin.

Arpino was the birthplace of perhaps one of the greatest representatives of classical culture, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Every year for four days Cicero’s work is celebrated as part an annual Latin competition and conference for students. Inside Europe went along and discovered that the Latin language is far from dead.



Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday that he has "worried" about the safety of U.S. assets -- meaning the Treasury bonds his government owns. Whatever Mr. Wen's political motives, his concerns about the integrity of U.S. sovereign debt are timely and apt.


In high school, I translated swatches of Julius Caesar’s “The Battle for Gaul” from Latin to English while nibbling cheese crackers. To boost the felicitous new trend toward Latin, I enlisted Gary D. Farney, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, to translate (loosely and creatively) from English to Latin “The Battle of Gall,” my take below on why the hyperventilating Republicans are not veni, vidi, vici-ing.

Veni, Vidi, Vici

I came, I saw, I conquered. (The laconic despatch in which Julius Ceasar announced to the Senate his victory over Pharnaces.)

apt (SUITABLE)
adjective
suitable or right for a particular situation:
an apt comment/description

aptly 
adverb
We spent a week at the aptly named Grand View Hotel.

aptness 
noun [U] FORMAL

felicitous

adj.

1. Admirably suited; apt: a felicitous comparison.
2. Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style: a felicitous writer.
3. Marked by happiness or good fortune: a felicitous life.

felicitously fe·lic'i·tous·ly adv.
felicitousness fe·lic'i·tous·ness n.


fe・lic・i・tous ━━ a.(表現が)適切な; 表現のうまい; 楽しい....[さらに]