It was a decisive point in Caesar's military career - his five-day campaign against Pharnaces was evidently so swift and complete that, according to Plutarch (writing about 150 years after the battle) he commemorated it with the now famous Latin words reportedly written to Amantius in Rome Veni, vidi, vici ("I came, I saw, I conquered").[2] Suetonius says that the same three words were displayed prominently in the triumph for the victory at Zela.[3] Pharnaces escaped from the rout back to his Bosporan Kingdom but was killed by one of his former governors in a skirmish.