Word: vici
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...Read Dryden Sir: Your closing sentence in the Fraden murder story, "Harlow was reading Dryden" [TIME, Dec. 28], may or may not come to have classic rank with "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or "Damn the torpedoes," but it will have at least as much effect as your suggestion (after last year's election) that the "eggheads" voted readers' for respect for Stevenson, in intellectual undermining effort your and our cultural heritage...
Vanquished. In Melbourne, John Kenneth Ware was divorced for misconduct by his wife, Veni Vidi Vici Ware...
Veni, Vidi, Vici. Bernard Montgomery was the hero of Britain last week. He was the man who, for the first time in World War II, had routed a German Army. He is an austere man, the son of a bishop and the grandson of Dean F. W. Farrar, who wrote a life of Christ. An Ulsterman, born in County Donegal, he was marked for the clergy. He went into the Army, but the mark of his religious upbringing is still deep in him. His hero is Oliver Cromwell, who also smote his enemies and praised God. At Dunkirk Bernard Montgomery...
...Veni, vidi, vici," has been supposed by wags to have been originally uttered not anent the conquest of Gaul, but on the occasion of one of his innumerable youthful female conquests...
...pronunciation of Latin, as now taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell...