In the same poem he mocks the 'veni, vidi, vici' attitude of local military officers who paid court to Maria Riddell, and refers in passing to French revolutionary 'Sans Culotes'.
2015, Michael Shermer, The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People, page 192, →ISBN
Still, even just-war theory demands there be reasons for the conflict beyond just veni, vidi, vici.