marmoreus

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Trastevere; and such is the famous _calix marmoreus_, which formerly stood near the church of SS.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
North, and Guy-Patin the Man of Marble (_Vir marmoreus_), felt that disgust for the things of life which appears so strikingly in the seventeenth century amongst those who were most ardently engaged in the affairs of the world.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830