Roman decadence reached its peak with the vomitorium: a room where feasting elites threw up to make room for more food. Or so the story goes … Mythbusting Ancient Rome – the truth about the ...

Vomitorium. The Roman writer Macrobius first referred to vomitoriums in his "Saturnalia." The adjective vomitus already existed in Latin, Bond told Live Science.

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Here, a vomitorium, or entrance/exit at a Roman amphitheater. (Image credit: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike) At some point in the late 19th or early 20th century, people got the wrong ...

One of the most famous early examples of the use of vomitoria in architecture is in the Roman Colosseum. Although built over 2,000 years ago, the Colosseum had a capacity of 50,000, ...

The word vomitorium was first used in the fourth century AD by the Roman writer Macrobius. He wrote about the amphitheatre passageways that could 'disgorge' the audience to and from their seats.

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Purging the Myth of the Vomitorium. Ancient Romans used the word, but pop culture has the concept all wrong . By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience on August 28, 2016. Share on Facebook.