Asterix and Caesar's Gift is the twenty-first volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was the first Asterix adventure that was not published in serial form in Pilote magazine prior to its publication as a book. Tremensdelirius and Egganlettus await their honest missio (Latin:honorary discharge); but Tremensdelirius, who has spent most of his enlistment being intoxicated, is imprisoned for insulting Julius Caesar while drunk. Upon hearing of this, Caesar suggests playing a practical joke, in which Tremensdelirius is awarded a Gaulish village in Armorica. A few days later, Tremensdelirius is drunk again and, unable to pay the innkeeper, offers his land share. Having agreed, innkeeper Orthopaedix, his wife Angina, and their daughter Influenza emigrate to the village and request a meeting with Chieftain Vitalstatistix to state their claim; but Vitalstatistix and the whole village dismiss their claim as absurd. When Angina b. …