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==Early modern use== During the [[early modern period]], the caduceus was used as a symbol of [[rhetoric]] (associated with Mercury's eloquence).<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Noldus |editor1-first=B. |editor2-last=Roding |editor2-first=J. |title=Pieter Isaacsz (1569-1625): Court Painter, Art Trader and Spy |date=2007 |publisher=Brepol |isbn=9782503524665 |pages=280, 288}}</ref> <gallery> File:A seated woman with a scroll and two books, holding a caduce Wellcome V0047927.jpg|Engraving by Hendrik Goltzius (1558β1617) File:Rhetoric- a young woman standing in a decorated interior with a caduceus in her right hand and a closed fan in her left hand, from the series 'The liberal arts' (Les arts liberaux) MET DP829049.jpg|''La Retorique'' (1633β35) File:Allegory of Rhetoric.jpg|''Allegory of Rhetoric'' (1650) </gallery>
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