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Cuna Cunctator Cuneiform Cuneal Cunnus
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

~ CUNA        in sp CRADLE or CRIB from
~ CUNABULA    lat CUNABULA A DIMINUTIVE of CUNAE to denote
              CRADLE or BIRTHPLACE


~ CUNCTATOR  id+ | PROCRASTINATOR |
             id+ | DELAY  HESITATION | from
  lat CUNCATRI = TO HESITATE  TO DELAY


~ CUNEA        in lat WEDGE or sp CUN~A also
               in sp DENOTES BRIBE
~ CUNEAL       PERTAINING TO A WEDGE LIKE SHAPE
~ CUNEIFORM    from lat CUNEUS = A WEDGE
~ CUNNILINGUS  from lat CUNNUS and LINGERE = TO LICK
               from LINGUA = TONGUE
~ CUNNUS       med> from CUNNUS = VULVA in
                    lat  CUNEUS   WEDGE         see> BRIBE
               vern sp   CON~O    VULVA    sug> CONSCIENCE
  continued see> VULVA

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