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Cicero, in Pro Rege Deiotaro, records that Julius Caesar "expressed a desire to vomit after dinner" vomere post cenam te velle dixisses, and says that the dictator took emetics for this purpose.
Archive 2008-04-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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The root of the word, vomere, translates to "spew out," which makes sense when applied to hurried exits.
kottke.org 2009
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Seminibus pofitis, fuperefl deducere terram Saepius ad capita, et duros ja6tare bidentisj Aut preflb exercere folum fub vomere, et xp&
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Uno retiquam aetatem egit, & vomere conans a coenn interiit Tirefias, vates Tbebanus ap.
Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788
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Produxiffe parum eft; cum raftra & farcula tantum Affueti coquere, & marris ac vomere laffi Nefcierint primi gladios extendere fabri.
A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785
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Nigra fere et preiro pinguis iiib vomere tena, % i cui putre (blum (namque hoc imitamur arando),
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstrata, a Chr. Gottl ... 1788
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