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Life
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ LIVE  or ALIVE      see> LIVER below
^u      main entry is see> LIFE
        sug> LIVING  sug> LIVES  sug> LIVEN
        sug> LEAVEN  sug> LIVER  sug> DELIVER
        sug> LIVERY  sug> LEAVE  sug> LEAF
        lit+ | "PEOPLE LIVING DEEPLY
                {opp of to see> VEGETATE}
                HAVE NOT FEAR OF DEATH"
        attr to Anais NIN [#] in her 1933 Diary
        lit+ "VIVAS UT POSSIS
              QUANDO NEC QUIS UT VELIS"
        or   "LIVE AS YOU CAN
              SINCE YOU CAN NOT LIVE
              AS YOU WOULD"  attr to
        Caecilus STATIUS [#] 219-166 BC
        WHO ARRIVED TO ROME AS A PRISONER OF WAR AND
        WAS MANUMITTED TO BECOME A FAMOUS WRITER
        AND FOLLOWER OF PLAUTUS [#]
          note BUDDHA and
               EPICURUS who stress that
               FEAR OF DEATH
          DRAINS LIFE
~ LIVER   formal etymologists stress link of
          LIVER with LIPID
          in this regard
  note gr ALEIPHEIN or ALIPTES = ANOIT    see> OIL
  biol>   PRIMARY ORGAN OF METABOLISM     see> CATABOLIC
          also MAIN SOURCE OF BODY HEAT   sug> FIRE
  ukr  PECZ     = OVEN                    sug> INFLAME
       PECZE      BURN                    see> FORNIX
       PECZINKA   LIVER                   sug> ALIVE
       PEKLO      HELL                    sug> INFERNO
  med> THE LIVER HAS THE CAPACITY TO      sug> POTENTIAL
       REGENERATE                         sug> GENESIS
  PARTIAL LIVER TRANSPLANTS SHOW THAT     sug> LIFE
  THE LIVER REGENERATES IN BOTH           sug> GENERA
  THE DONOR AND THE RECIPIENT             sug> DEGENERATE
  myth> WHILE IN TARTAROS                 sug> HADES
        THE LIVER OF TITYUS               sug> HEPATIC
  WAS GNAWED BY VULTURES                  sug> HELL
  BUT IT REGENERATED                      sug> TORT
  SO HIS TORTURE ENDURED                  sug> DURATION
  note " EAT YOUR LIVER OUT "
  ply> | after death we may BURN or BAKE in HELL
         but while ALIVE it is our LIVER that BURNS |
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