| Page 2, Panel 8 |
Half pint of mild and bitter: British beer. |
| Page 3, Panel 6 |
Tripe = part of the stomach, aurochs = a large, almost extinct
European bison. |
| Page 7, Panel 1 |
Looks similar to a scene from Fellini's Satyricon. |
| Page 8, Panel 4 |
Valetudinarium = place of poor health |
| Page 8, Panel 7 |
Air in the arteries is a quick way to kill someone |
| Page 8, Panel 8 |
Aesculapius = god of medicine; staff with snake. |
| Page 14, Panel 3 |
Il Milia Passum = Two miles to go |
| Page 14, Panel 5 |
Servitutes = Servitude |
| Page 15, Panel 1 |
Chariotel = like motel |
| Page 16, Panel 1 |
In the original, this is a little man with a horned helmet, the emblem
of a garage company. The company sued, and the guy has been redrawn as
the Michelin Man. |
| Page 19, Panel 10 |
Maior e longinquo reverentia = Greater is the respect [that comes]
from a long time ago. |
| Page 20, Panel 9 |
Leman Lake is the name of Lake Geneva in French: Lac Leman. |
| Page 23, Panel 4 |
Sicambri = A Gaulish tribe, which later joined the Franks;
Aedue = Gauls from between the Loire and Saone rivers;
Triboci = Gauls on the left bank of Rhine;
Sequani = Gauls in modern Burgundy |
| Page 28, Panel 7 |
Curriculum Vitae = running of life. Life story, biography. |
| Page 30, Panel 7 |
This building must be the Palais des Nations. One of the two UN
headquarters. Here, the building has a definitively Roman style the
actual hasn't. |
| Page 32, Panel 1 |
Carduchi = Corduene, also known as Cordyene, Cardyene
and Gordyene, was a province of the Roman Empire located in
the northern mesopotamia.
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| Page 32, Panel 5 |
Nunc est bibendum = now for drinks (Horace, Odes I.xxxvii.1) |
| Page 35, Panel 11 |
William Tell, in case anyone missed it. |
| Page 38, Panel 3 |
Elephants refer to Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. |
| Page 39, Panel 3 |
The Red Cross was formed in Switzerland |
