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Like the Greeks, the Romans were accustomed to drinking wine diluted with water. And like many Greeks, many Romans compensated for this observance by drinking it by the vat. The Emperor Claudius was one of them. Suetonius notes that “[i]t was seldom that Claudius left a dining-hall except gorged and sodden; he would then go to bed and sleep supine with his mouth wide open – thus allowing a feather to be put down his throat, which would bring up the superfluous food and drink as vomit.”