A rose by any other name

Accountancy SA | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

Law students and others who persevered with Latin at University will know that sub rosa means in secret or in the strictest confidence. The origin of the expression - literally under the rose - seems to differ according to where the lecturer learned his Latin.

Some refer to the mystical and allegorical nature of the rose, typified by the Rose of Jericho, a plant which flowers intermittently only in certain parts of the Holy Land. The common name of the rose is Mary's flower. A more romantic explanation is that Cupid, the Roman god of love, gave Harpocrates, the god of silence, a rose as an ...

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