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Pot Potable Potion
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

Ideas in Pot and Potable relate to 
wide, health, drink, beer, soup, absorb, 
sorbet, river, deluge, and ... Goddess Potamia  
(on the far end) baby, kid ... 

myth POTAMIA   = Goddess of rivers
gr   POTAMUS     river                    
lat  POTERE      wide 
eng  POT         wide vessel
med  POTION      liquid medicine
lat  POTOS       drinking as in POTABLE
ukr  POTOP       deluge  drowning
sp   POTAJE      soup or porridge  medley
     POTAR       to drink
     POTE        pot  jar
skt  PIBATY      he drinks
ukr  PYTY        drink
     PYVO        beer    or drink
sp   PIBE        vernacular for child as in KID
...
eng  ABSORB      soak up
       SORBET    drink from fruit leading to SHERBERT
sc     SORBITOL  alcohol used as softener or HUMECTANT
lat    SORBITIO  soup
       SORBERE   drink
sp        BEBER  drink
          BEBE   baby

I am sure, any of you can add to the above
 
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