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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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oroboros commented on the word in vino veritas
In wine-talk we solve the world's problems!
May 2, 2007