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in vino veritas

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  • phrase drunken folks speak truth, one tells the truth under the influence of alcohol

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From Latin: in ("in") + vīnō, the ablative singular of vīnum ("wine") + vēritās ("truth"). Thus, “in wine there is truth”. First attested, as volgoque veritas iam attributa vino est, in the Naturalis Historia (XIV, 141) of Pliny the Elder.

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