Title: A Latin teacher responds
Product review: "I came, I saw, I conquered" is in fact the same thing as "I have come, I have seen, I have conquered." The person who wrote that the first translation is incorrect is, in fact, wrong. The Latin perfect tense, of which this is a well-known and thus effective teaching example, encompasses both of these 'past' translations. When discussing the famous phrase attributed to Caesar, we usually use the first translation to endow the statement with the sense of immediacy and power that (one presumes) Caesar intended to convey.
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