List of Latin phrases (S): Difference between revisions

|''[[sub rosa]]''||under the rose||"In secret", "privately", "confidentially", or "covertly". In the [[Middle Ages]], a [[rose]] was suspended from the ceiling of a council chamber to indicate that what was said in the "under the rose" was not to be repeated outside. This practice originates in [[Greek mythology]], where [[Aphrodite]] gave a rose to her son [[Eros]], and he, in turn, gave it to [[Harpocrates]], the god of silence, to ensure that his mother's indiscretions—or those of the gods in general, in other accounts—were kept under wraps.

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|''[[sub silentio]]''||under silence||implied but not expressly stated.