A visit to Manhattan's Stephen A. Schwarzman research library, to look at two texts capturing ancient Roman and ancient Jewish concepts of wine as truth serum.

It was said in Latin, "in vino veritas" (in wine, truth).

It was said in Hebrew
"יין ניתן בשבעים אותיות וסוד ניתן בשבעים אותיות נכנס יין יצא סוד"
(wine [yayin] has a numerical value of 70 and secret [sod] has a numerical value of 70: as wine goes in, a secret comes out).

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SOURCES:

[4:30] — Harris Rackham (ed./trans.), "Pliny: Natural History," (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. 278
Gaius Plinius Secundus, "Naturalis Historia," book xiv, section xxviii, no. 141-142
("volgoque veritas iam attributa vino est")

[4:54] — Traffic (2000)
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[9:29] — Talmud Bavli [Babylonian Talmud] (Artscroll, 1993), tractate Sanhedrin 38A
תלמוד בבלי מסכת סנהדרין דף לח עמוד א

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