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Livid
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

~ LIVID  id+ | BLUISH GRAY or LEAD LIKE |
^u       id+ | DEATH or DEADLY LIKE |
  id+ |  DEATH DISCOLORS |    see> PALE
  lat    LIVIDUS = LIVID
  ukr   SLYVA      PLUM
  ger SCHLEHE      WILD PLUM
  hx>   SLYVOVITZ  LIQUOR MADE FROM PLUMS
  med>   LIVOR     or LIVOR MORTIS is for
         POST MORTEM DISCOLORATIONS IN
  GRAVITY DEPENDENT AREAS OF CADAVERS    sug> CORPS
  myth> OBLIVION is POPULATED BY         sug> CORPSE
        LIVID BODIES                     sug> CORPORATION
  see>  OBLIVION
  ply> | LIVID are those with a bad LIVER
         as well as those LIVING in OBLIVION |
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