Sentences with word «vomitorium»
ARTIFICIAL birth control creates a s * exual vomitorium.
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At some point in the late 19th or early 20th century, people got the wrong idea about vomitoriums.
Suzanne Collins» «The Hunger Games» series, for example, alludes to vomitoriums when the lavish inhabitants of the Capitol — all with Latin names like Flavia and Octavia — imbibe a drink to make them vomit at parties so they can gorge themselves on more calories than citizens in the surrounding districts would see in months.
Writer Aldous Huxley was similarly inspired, and wrote of vomitoriums as literal places to vomit in his 1923 novel «Antic Hay.»
The Roman writer Macrobius first referred to vomitoriums in his «Saturnalia.»
But the real story behind vomitoriums is much less disgusting.
The poshest block in Chelsea has more than enough of just that, as with the slashed canvas of Lucio Fontana and Sterling Ruby's ceramic vomitorium a month before.
Hard to have any sympathy for him when he's up half the night at the vomitorium.
In ancient Rome, the architectural feature called a vomitorium was an entranceway for a stadium, not a room used for purging.
In one passage, he wrote of slaves cleaning up the vomit of drunks at banquets, and in his Letter to Helvia, he summarized the vomitorium idea succinctly but metaphorically, referring to what he saw as the excesses of Rome: «They vomit so they may eat, and eat so that they may vomit.»
It seems likely that it was a single linguistic error: «Vomitorium» sounds like a place where people would vomit, and there was that pre-existing trope about gluttonous Romans.
To Romans, vomitoriums were the entrances / exits in stadiums or theaters, so dubbed by a fifth - century writer because of the way they'd spew crowds out into the streets.
As far as pop culture is concerned, a vomitorium is a room where ancient Romans went to throw up lavish meals so they could return to the table and feast some more.
We make much of the excesses of the empire, note the orgies and vomitoriums, the bread and circus to entertain the mob, and the strange and outlandish behaviors of the rulers.