The ancient Greeks first said 'Truth in wine.' (I haven't the faintest idea what the Greek is!). The Romans adopted a lot of ideas from Greek civilisation (including communal drunkenness) and adopted the Greek saying translating it to the more-widely known, 'In vino veritas.'
There seems to have been a similar saying in classical Greece (oinos kai aletheia) which was proverbial by the time that Plato puts it into the mouth of Alcibiades in the “Symposium.” In the early fourth century BC.
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