veni, vidi, etc.

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Just for the record, the Latin verb VINCERE, generally translated TO 
CONQUER, is conjugated vinco, vincere, vici, victum.  The Caesar 
quote is generaly quoted as "Veni, Vidi, Vici" (of course, the Romans 
didn't have capital letters or punctuation, so I get to make those 
up), which translates as "I came, I saw, I (have) conquered."  I 
believe this referred to his conquest of what is now France.  Caesar 
wrote a book about that war, and I bet if you typed the title of that 
book into a computer translator and told it that it was Italian 
rather than Latin, you'd get a pretty humorous answer.  The title was 
"De Bello Gallica," which translates as "The French War."

Anybody want to lend me a V6 valvesrping compressor?
Joe Elliott
'82 GTV6
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