I found these at a flea market. The Latin translation of Asterix is wonderful! I especially like the many insults that are straight from Roman sources (Plautus et al.): furunculus, furcifer, scelerum caput, rabiosus canis, stultissimus, truncus, improbissimus, bestia immanis.
SPQR!
I’d rather be a Vestal virgin!
I am the state!
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. (Horace, Epistles 1.18.84)
Ceterum censeo…
Soldiers in the kitchen, the sword in the scabbard.
Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem. (Vergil, Aeneid 2.353-54)
At tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit. (Ennius)
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