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Corrode Corrupt
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

~ CORRODE    lat CORRODERE = TO GNAW from
                    RODERE   GNAW    sug> RODENT
~ CORROSION  see> CORRODE above


~ CORRUPT  see> RUPT RUPTURE ROUT
           biol> PUTRID  PUTREFACT  PUS
  also BAD   EVIL SINISTER or
       OMINOUS  VICIOUS
  lat RUMPERE = TO BREAK or DESTROY   see> RUPT
  sp  ROMPER    BREAK                 sug> ROMP
      RUPTURED                        sug> ROT
  lit+
  EPIGRAM or
  maxim> "POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT
          ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY"
  in a letters of First Baron ACTON [#] 1904
  derived from
  " CORRUPTION
    THE MOST INFALLIBLE SYMPTOM
    OF CONSITUTIONAL LIBERTY "
  attr to GIBBON [#] 1776 and derived from
  " THE GREATER THE POWER
    THE GREATER THE ABUSE "
  attr to E BURKE [#] 1771
  biol> CORRUPT implies PUTRID  ROTTEN
  lit+  SINISTER  OMINOUS  VICIOUS
        HARMFUL  MALIGNANT  DEGENERATE  DEPRAVED  DEVIANT
  note link to SOIL  SOW  HYENA and
       link    SOW   PIG  HYBRID
  hx>  CORRUPTION IS A POLITICAL TOOL sug> SCANDAL
       as per President T JEFFERSON [#] WHO NOTED
  in his Autobiography re
  CONGRESS BEING A DEN OF CORRUPTION
  " THAT 150 LAWYERS
    SHOULD DO BUSINESS TOGETHER
    OUGHT NOT TO BE    EXPECTED " but modern CYNICS would
  prefer  NOT TO BE  UNEXPECTED
  ply> | ROMPing corRUPT advocates lobbyists and
         other solicitors may use
  PUTRefact facts or PUTRid ideas to
  disRUPT or RUPTure the truth by the
  rapture of MONEY |        see> RAPT
  consider RIP ROUT ROB ROBE ROBBER RIP REAVE BEREAVE
           RUBBLE ABRUPT DISRUPT ERUPT INTERRUPT and
           BANKRUPT
  see> GRESHAMITE regarding BAD MONEY
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