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''In vino veritas'' is a Latin phrase that means "in wine, truth." The expression, together with its counterpart in Greek, "Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια" (''En oinōi alētheia''), is found in Erasmus' ''Adagia'', I.vii.17.〔See W. Barker, ''The Adages of Erasmus'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 100-103. Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια: Diogenianus, ''Cent.'' 4.81. See Andreas Schottus, ''Paroimiai hellēnikai'' (Antwerp: Plantin, 1612), (p. 215 ).〕 Pliny the Elder's ''Naturalis historia'' contains an early allusion to the phrase.〔''Nat. hist.'' 14, 141: "...volgoque veritas iam attributa vino est."〕 The Greek expression is traced back to a poem by Alcaeus.〔Alc. fr. 366 Voigt: "οἶνος, ὦ φίλε παῖ, καὶ ἀλάθεα" (''oinos, ō phile pai, kai alāthea''), "Wine, dear boy, and truth...". Nothing is known about the poem except for these words, which are quoted by a later scholiast. See G. Tsomis, ''Zusammenschau der Frühgriechischen Monodischen Melik: Alkaios, Sappho, Anakreon'' (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999), (pp. 160-161 ).〕 Herodotus asserts, and it is likely enough, that if the Persians decided something while drunk, they made a rule to reconsider it when sober. Authors from Herodotus onwards, however, have dared to add that if the Persians made a decision while sober, they made a rule to reconsider it when they were drunk (''Histories'', book 1, section 133).〔Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vol. 2, Food Production to Nuts, Solomon H. Katz (Editor in Chief), 2003, Charles Scribner’s Sons, p. 198. ISBN 0-684-80566-9 (v. 2).〕 The Roman historian Tacitus described how the Germanic peoples kept council at feasts, where they believed that drunkenness prevented the participants from dissembling.〔Tacitus, ''Germania'', 22.〕 The phrase is often continued as, "''In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas''", i.e., "In wine there is truth, in water there is health." Similar phrases exist across cultures and languages. ==Russian== In Russian, «Что у трезвого на уме, то у пьяного на языке» ("What a sober man has in his mind, the drunk one has on his tongue"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「in vino veritas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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