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- Newsgroups: alt.bacchus
- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!m2xenix!mtek!wbg
- From: wbg@mtek.com (W. Brewster Gillett)
- Subject: Re: If you don't mind me asking this.....
- Reply-To: brew@mtek.com
- Organization: MTEK International, Inc.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:30:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.003050.2325@mtek.com>
- References: <albyrne.727560049@unix1.tcd.ie> <C16zDp.7Au@unix.portal.com> <albyrne.727616175@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Keywords: Bacchus, Dionysus
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- >>In article <albyrne.727560049@unix1.tcd.ie> albyrne@unix1.tcd.ie (The Phantom) writes:
- >>>Hi everyone,
- >>>Alan Byrne
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- >>In vino veritas, eh?
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- >Huh?? My latin or whatever it is , isn't the best..could you please
- >explain??
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- Latin for "In wine is Truth" (loose translation)
- Originated I believe with one of the Roman Empire writers... has been used
- in a variety of contexts in the couple of millenia since. Often adopted by
- wine appreciation groups, etc. - also sometimes used to indicate people's
- propensity for blurting out things they'd rather have not said when under
- the influence of the grape ....
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