Romans Threw Up at Dinner So They Could Keep Eating #shorts

At a rich Roman dinner party, being full was no reason to stop. Guests made themselves throw up, then went back to the food. The philosopher Seneca summed it up: they vomit to eat, and eat to vomit. The emperor Vitellius got through three or four feasts a day by throwing up between them, and when Claudius fell asleep at the table, his servants put the feather down his throat for him. Under the table, one slave's job was wiping up what the guests brought back up. And the famous vomitorium? That was just the exit of an amphitheatre. The vomiting was real.