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Ster Sterile
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

~ STER~     gr prefix for STIFF or HARD
~ STERILE   DUAL IDEAS related to
^u          id+ | IMMATURITY or SENILITY |
            id+ | LIFELESS as in
                  BARE
                  BLANK
                  DULL
                  SPIRITLESS |
  skr   STARI   = UNFRUITFULL mostly such a COW
  ukr   STARIJ    SENILE  OLD
  lat   STERILIS  same
  gr    STEIRA    OLD WOMAN thus STERILE
        STEREOS   STIFF
  biol> STERILE   FREE of LIVING ORGANISMS
  med>  STERILE   expressed as INFERTILILTY
                  but it takes TWO thus a
                  STERILE FEMALE may be so because of an
                  INFERTILE MALE PARTNER
  myth> THE MARRIAGE OF HADES & PERSEPHONE WAS
        STERILE or BARREN making HELL perhaps
  more DISMALLY BLEAK
  note  STARCH STIFF STARK UPSTART
  ply>  | upSTARTS may quickly become STERILE and
          STIFF as if STARCHED |
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