Veni, vidi, vici

But the notebook held a chilling final entry written in his own hand.

Vini Vidi Vici.

The mine is about 200 feet across from the cave.

I have found it.

And sometimes even land itself, in large tracts, which had been confiscated by the state or otherwise taken from the original possessors, was divided among the people.

The laws enacted from time to time for this purpose were called agrarian laws, and the phrase afterward passed into a sort of proverb, inasmuch as plans proposed in modern times for conciliating the favor of the populace by sharing among them property belonging to the state or to the rich are designated by the name of agrarianism.

Thus Rome was a city supported in a great measure by the fruits of its conquests, that is, in a certain sense, by plunder.

It was a vast community most efficiently and admirably organized for this purpose, and yet it would not be perfectly just to designate the people simply as a band of robbers.

Caesar treated Bibulus also with so much neglect and assumed so entirely the whole control of the consular power to the utter exclusion of his colleague that Bibulus at last, completely discouraged and chagrined, abandoned all pretension to official authority, retired to his house, and shut himself up in perfect seclusion, leaving Caesar to his own way.

It was customary among the Romans in their historical and narrative writings to designate the successive years not by a numerical date as with us, but by the names of the consuls who held office in them.

Thus, in the time of Caesar's consulship, the phrase would have been, in the year of Caesar and Bibulus, consuls, according to the ordinary usage.

But the wags of the city, in order to make sport of the assumptions of Caesar and the insignificance of Bibulus, used to say, in the year of Julius and Caesar, consuls, rejecting the name of Bibulus altogether and taking the two names of Caesar to make out the necessary duality.

So, did Antonius use AI before Jesus was born? Or did Shakespeare 400 years ago? For sure, it must have been deep-seek or mistral.

Talking about triads, Caesar himself allegedly said, Veni, Vidi, Vici, those rigid Romans are the proof that AI isn't a novel technology.

so when the model reaches for these it's not being creative it is not being stupid it's handing back the shapes that humans have loved for centuries because that is what it's built to do then it does it nine times in a paragraph because one pancake isn't enough pancakes galore the figures were never the problem the dosage is And that is why I do not trust the detectors.

Stanford, 2023, wrote it up in the journal Patrons.