Black script lettering tattoo reading Veni vidi vici along a finger, with a large gold ring and red nails visible on the hand.

Veni vidi vici script on finger

Lettering · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a hand with the Latin phrase Veni vidi vici written in black script lettering along the length of one finger. The linework is clean and fairly fine, with the ink appearing dark and slightly soft at the edges. The hand wears a large gold ring with a clear stone, and the background is white lace fabric with a cigarette held between the fingers.

Lettering Hand Latin phrase Script Finger Ring Lace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Gaius, the quartermaster's boy says the mules are lame and the grain is wet, and I have told him that a dry biscuit and a clean conscience will carry any man to Gaul. Write to your mother that I am well. Do not write that I have been sleeping badly, because she will believe it and send a priest.

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The campaign is nearly done, though the men do not yet know it. I rode the ridge at dawn with the scouts and counted the smoke from their hearths in the valley below, forty-one columns, thin as threads pulled from a loom. Their chieftain sent a messenger with a bronze bowl of salt and a request for terms. I sent back the bowl, filled with our own salt, and a note that said only that the terms were already settled. He will understand it or he will not.

The lace you once made me, the grey-white one with the knotted border, went into the baggage train with the rest. I think of it when the wind comes off the hills and snaps the standards straight. Tell the girl at the fountain that I have seen the country she described, and it is nothing like her drawings, and that I like it better for that.

There is no grand battle to report. There was a river, a bridge that held, and a rain of arrows that stopped short of us as though it had been told to. I will be home before the vines are cut. Keep the lamp lit in the window. I will know the house by the light.