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In vino veritas is a well-known Latin phrase, meaning “in wine [there is] truth”.
It is also known as a Greek phrase “Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια”, which has the same meaning.
[edit] Meaning and Origin
Apparently the phrase refers to the circumstance, that people seem to become uninhibited
and tell what they really think (“the truth”) when they drink alcohol.
Already Pliny the Elder, who first mentioned this phrase, called the phrase a saying.[1]
The oldest known source for the phrase is the Greek poet Alcaeus.
The Roman historican Tacitus tells about the Germanic peoples,
that they always drank wine while holding councils,
as they thought nobody can deceive effectively when drunk.
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