English Translations: Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge
Copyright © 1969 Goscinny & Uderzo
Abstract
Except for the tax collector, this one is pretty forgettable. The tax collector is Valery Giscard d'Estaing (the then minister of finance of France who later became the president).
Table 13.1. Asterix and the Cauldron - Annotations
| Page, Panel | Comment |
|---|---|
| Page 9, Panel 2 | Quo vadis = where are you going? |
| Page 10, Panel 1 | Vae Victis = Woe to the conquered ones. See annotation for Page 1, Panel 10 in Asterix the Gaul |
| Page 11, Panel 8 | Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant = Where they make a wilderness and call it peace (Tacitus 56-120 AD, Agricola 42) |
| Page 13, Panel 4 | Conkered = Conker - a game popular in England in which each player swings a horse chestnut thread on a string to try to break one held by his opponent; also refers to the chestnut itself. |
| Page 20, Panel 8 | Retiary = a gladitor with a net; Velite = a light armed infantryman; Numidian = from North Africa; Cestus = a gauntlet for boxers (from Caestus; not to be confused with cestus, which means girdle) |
| Page 22, Panel 3 | Ave Caesar, morituri... = Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you. Said by gladiators in the circus before fighting. |
| Page 26 Panel 9 | Goscinny and Uderzo sitting on the font row of the theatre |
| Page 29, Panel 8 | Hippodrome = literally, "horse racetrack" |
| Page 30, Panel 3 | Quadriage = Four horse chariot. |
| Page 31, Panel 9 | Barclus Bank = Barcley's Bank |
| Page 37, Panel 8 | Quid pro quo = something in return for something else |
| Page 44, Panel 13 | For once, just for once, the pirates are happy. |
| Page ??, Panel ?? | "But money has no smell" = "Pecunia non olet" by Vesparian meaning money doesn't stink. In order to fill depleted state funds, Vesparian introduced, among other things, a new tax on public lavatories. When his son Titus objected, Vesparian held a coin collected under the new tax law to Titus' nose and asked him if it smelled. |
Table 13.2. Asterix and the Cauldron - Names