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Isa_28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
Ver. 8. For all places are full of vomit and filthiness.] Vah, vah, vah: cum tu Narbone mensas hospitam convomeres, saith Cicero to Antony, who was not ashamed likewise to write, or rather to spew out a book concerning his own great strength to bear strong drink, and to lay up others who strove with him for the mastery. Cicero taxeth Julius Caesar for this foul custom; so doth Philo Caligula, and Suetonius Vitellius. {a}
{a} Veniunt ut edant, edunt ut vomant. They came to drink, the drink to vomit. - Senec.