In vino veritas is a Latin phrase that means "in wine there is truth."
The expression, together with its counterpart in Greek, "Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια" (En oinōi alētheia), is found in Erasmus' Adagia, I.vii.17. Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia contains an early allusion to the phrase. The Greek expression is traced back to a poem by Alcaeus.
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).
The Roman historian Tacitus described how the Germanic peoples always drank while holding councils, as they believed nobody could lie effectively when drunk.
The phrase is often continued as, "In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas", i.e., "In wine there is truth, in water there is health."
The expression, together with its counterpart in Greek, "Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια" (En oinōi alētheia), is found in Erasmus' Adagia, I.vii.17. Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia contains an early allusion to the phrase. The Greek expression is traced back to a poem by Alcaeus.
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).
The Roman historian Tacitus described how the Germanic peoples always drank while holding councils, as they believed nobody could lie effectively when drunk.
The phrase is often continued as, "In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas", i.e., "In wine there is truth, in water there is health."
The phrase is often continued as, "In vino veritas, in aqua sanitas", i.e., "In wine there is truth, in water there is health."
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Then it got retconned into well, the aptly named "Vilous." However, instead of being the name of the setting, now it just refers to a dumb sun. The setting changed to become this kind of... dystopian wannabe Mad Max environment where all the Skyrim elements have been removed and instead it just focuses on the sick and weird fetishes of the creators. The "big evil" overarching villain of this reboot was General Rain, and as mentioned above, she's the best because she'll fucking molest you with no remorse.
Other than that it's pretty boring because nobody actually knows Vilous for being Vilous. They only know Vilous because of General Rain's arc... she literally became a meme on 4chan boards where she just raped shit all day long, because, "Rain lieks 2 raip!!" It should also be noted that Vilous has writing worse than a 4th grader's writing stimuli. To each their own though, since the poor-translation and near braindead thinking of the monkeys who made this a thing. This however makes something as ass as Twokinds and/or Changed look like Shakespeare's work in comparison.
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