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'''Sub rosa''' is a New Latin term for confidentially, in private, or secretive.

In the Middle Ages, councils would suspend a rose from the ceiling of their chamber to signify that was being said should not be told outside the chamber.

The rose signifies confidentiality under Greek mythology, where [[Aphrodite]] gave a rose to her son [[Eros]] and he gave it to the god of silence, [[Harpocrates]], to conceal [[Aphrodite]]'s misbehavior.

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