| Author | |
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| Epoch | 1914-1994 |
| Work | Tsotne, that is the Fall and the Rise of Georgians (Grigol Abashidze, Works in Three Volumes, Vol. 3, Tbilisi, 1985) |
| Type | |
| Quote | “The wise man is the one, who knows the price of a woman and wine, who created this song and said, the truth is in wine” (pg. 162) |
| Term |
Nike. Vani. II-I BC, Bronze, 22 x19 cm. The Georgian National Museum.
| Comment | “The truth is in wine” refers to the popular Latin sentence in vino veritas, which, in its turn, should be coming from the famous fragment by Alcaeus (fr. 366. V), where we read: wine, my boy, is truth” [E.K.] |
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