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Vomitorium

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Vomitorium ad dextram amphitheatri Nemausi

Vomitorium (-i, n.) (vox a vomitare dicta) erat ostium seu aditus in theatro et amphitheatro, per quem populus in gradus et ad sedilia introibat et e cavea exibat.[1]

Item vomitoria dicta erant medicamina vomifica.[2]

Notae

  1. Macrobius, Saturnalia 6.4.4:"vomitoria [...] unde homines glomeratim ingredientes in sedilia se fundunt."
  2. Plinius, Naturalis historia 20.107: "bulbus, quem vomitorium vocant ab effectu".