Expert: Maria - 10/18/2007

Question
how would you say we came we saw we conquered and we played the bagpipes?

Answer
Hello,

As “we came, we saw, we conquered” is simply a trite imitation in the 1st.person plural of “Veni, vidi, vici”(I came, I saw, I conquered), i.e. the sentence Caius Julius Caesar is said to have written to Roman Senate in 47 BC after he defeated  at the first assault king Pharnaces in the battle of Zela (today Turkey), its translation is the following:
“Venimus, vidimus, vicimus”.

As for “and we played the bagpipes”, which obviously would aim at  being  a funny addition to a  historical phrase, though I really think it is a silly nonsense, it would be “et fistula cecinimus” in Latin.

Bye,
Maria