Black flowing script lettering reading Veni Vidi Vici on a white background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.

Veni Vidi Vici in flowing script

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the Latin phrase Veni Vidi Vici written in three words across a white background. The letters are drawn in black with a calligraphic script, with long looping ascenders and tapered strokes on the V and the dots over the i letters. The design is monochrome and centred with generous white space around it.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The boy from the telegraph office left the form on Walter Sowerby's counter with its corners curled from his damp palm, and the old penmanship master read it twice before he understood it was only three words long. Telegrams were charged by the word, and nobody who paid sixpence for a wire wasted a fourth. Veni, vidi, vici, in a clerk's pencil, bound for Harrogate.

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He knew the hand. Ten years earlier a lad called Tobias Greenwood had sat at the third desk from the stove, tongue caught between his teeth, looping capitals until his knuckles ached. Sowerby had told him the V was the hardest letter in the alphabet because it had to lean on nothing. The boy had gone off to clerk for a horse dealer, then to London, then to nowhere anyone wrote back from.

Sowerby did not telegraph his answer. He cut a fresh nib, took a sheet of good cream laid paper, and let the long ascenders climb the margin the way the boy used to draw them. He used the same three words, because they were the only ones Tobias had ever spelled properly, and beneath them he wrote the line the boy had never managed to master: Come home and be taught the V again. He sealed it, put a penny stamp on the corner, and went out into the wet street to post it before he could think better of the price.