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"One dark and stormy night, a sinister figure arrives in the little Gaulish village. Prolix, who claims to be a Soothsayer, prophesies that when the storm is over the weather will improve. And it does! Now the credulous villagers believe every word he says, but Asterix has suspicions about the smooth-talking Prolix. Who is really right about the Soothsayer?"

• What it means: Tediously prolonged; wordy
• About: Prolix survives by travelling from village to village, predicting the future in exchange for food and water. He is no real soothsayer, he's a fraud, but one particular Gaulish village believes him, and that is to prove his downfall.

• What it means: Voluptuous (ample) Arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries)
• About: Centurion of Compendium, he goes against the orders to arrest all Gaulish soothsayers when he realises that the captured Prolix may prove useful in finally defeating the Gauls. He starts to believe what the Soothsayer tells him, and is convinced that he will rise to "Caesar!".

• Soothsayer's Future predictions
• The villagers posing for a "photograph"
• The Asterix and the Laurel Wreath mistakes

A very entertaining story, with some classic Asterix humour involving the villager's gulibability to the Soothsayer's messages.