emetic Copy link Outline 1. *ĕmĕtĭca2. vŏmĭtōrius (adj.) with some appropriate subs. • emetic: 1. *ĕmĕtĭca: used by Cic. in its Gk. form, ἐμετικἡν agebat., Att. 13, 52. (N.B. In Cic. Fam. 8, 1, emetica is merely a conjecture.) 2. vŏmĭtōrius (adj.) with some appropriate subs.: as, bulbus v., Plin. Simly, vŏmĭfĭcus: v. medicamentum, Coel. Aur. Phr.: to get rid of bile by e.s, vomitione biles extrahere, Plin. (Hor. has bilem purgari, A. P. 302).