[17]
amplification results from subsequent
events, since the violence with which the wine
burst from him was such that the vomiting was
not accidental nor voluntary, but a matter of
necessity, at a moment when it was specially unseemly, while the food was not recently swallowed,
as is sometimes the case, but the residue of the revel
of the preceding day.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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