I came, I saw, I...?

So I was reading Jingo by Terry Pratchett the other day - well ok, to be quite honest, I was listening to it on the way to and from Wisconsin this last weekend - and I came across a little observation of Caesar's famous words "Veni, vidi, vici". I thought that it was too good not to share.

"It [Veni, vidi, vici] wasn't the sort of thing you came up with on the spur of the moment, was it? It sounded as if he had worked it out. He'd probably spent long evenings in his tent, looking up in the dictionary short words beginning with V and trying them out... Veni, vermini, vomui, I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi, veneri, vamoosi, I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away? It must have been a big relief to come up with three short acceptable words. He probably made them up first, and then went off to see somewhere and conquer it."

And later on in the book, engraved on the plinth of an old statue:

"Ab hoc possum videre Domum Tuum"

Well... 'domum tuum' was 'your house,' wasn't it?...and 'videre' was 'I see'...

"What?" he said aloud. "'I can see your house from up here?' What kind of a noble sentiment is that?"