| But consuming large amounts of food and drink while lying on one's side, waiting to use the vomitorium, is quite another. |
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| I had read somewhere about the practice in ancient Rome of having a vomitorium. |
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| But it's a cruel myth that they would troop off to the vomitorium afterwards. |
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| Just stagger to the handy vomitorium and come back with appetite restored. |
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| In the fall in Palmer Stadium, the two of them attended every home game in a fifty-yard-line box over a vomitorium. |
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| The Romans did this and created the vomitorium where they could go after a large tasty meal, barf it all up, and start in again on another large tasty meal. |
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| Those were the days before seatbelts in the back, and we used to bounce around so merrily that by the end of any long voyage our bench was a glorified vomitorium. |
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| Look in here, this was the triclinium, where the rich would stuff themselves then go over there into the vomitorium and throw it all back up, ready for more. |
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| At each of the extremities under the grand vomitorium was a gate, one called Sanivivaria and the other Mortualis. |
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| As for the Romans, they are famously known for their invention of the vomitorium which allowed them to indulge in excessive eating and relieve themselves by vomiting. |
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