英语词汇sub rosa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sub rosa. According to legend, the Greek god of silence, Harpocrates, stumbled upon Venus while she was making love and Cupid, the goddess of love’s son, bribed him to keep quiet about the affair by giving him the first rose ever created. This story made the rose the emblem of silence and since the fifth century b.c. a rose carved on the ceilings of dining and draw- ing rooms where European diplomats gathered enjoined all present to observe secrecy about any matter discussed sub rosa, or “under the rose.” A similar phrase used at such gatherings was sub vino sub rosa est, “What is said under the influence of wine is secret,” a reminder that things revealed by tongues made loose with wine weren’t to be repeated beyond these walls. The rose was also carved over the Roman Catholic con- fessional as a symbol of silence and the phrase sub rosa, became well known in German as unter der Rose, in French as sous la rose, and in English as under the rose as a term for strict confi- dence, complete secrecy, absolute privacy. Incidentally, the an- cient legend of Harpocrates was inspired by what the Greeks thought was a picture of the Egyptian god of silence, Horus, seated under a rose with a finger at his lips. Actually, the rose in the picture was a lotus and the infant god Horus was merely sucking his finger.

词汇	sub rosa
词源	sub rosa. According to legend, the Greek god of silence, Harpocrates, stumbled upon Venus while she was making love and Cupid, the goddess of love’s son, bribed him to keep quiet about the affair by giving him the first rose ever created. This story made the rose the emblem of silence and since the fifth century b.c. a rose carved on the ceilings of dining and draw- ing rooms where European diplomats gathered enjoined all present to observe secrecy about any matter discussed sub rosa, or “under the rose.” A similar phrase used at such gatherings was sub vino sub rosa est, “What is said under the influence of wine is secret,” a reminder that things revealed by tongues made loose with wine weren’t to be repeated beyond these walls. The rose was also carved over the Roman Catholic con- fessional as a symbol of silence and the phrase sub rosa, became well known in German as unter der Rose, in French as sous la rose, and in English as under the rose as a term for strict confi- dence, complete secrecy, absolute privacy. Incidentally, the an- cient legend of Harpocrates was inspired by what the Greeks thought was a picture of the Egyptian god of silence, Horus, seated under a rose with a finger at his lips. Actually, the rose in the picture was a lotus and the infant god Horus was merely sucking his finger.
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