Marforio

There was a statue opposite to it called Marforio -- perhaps because it had been brought from the Forum of

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Before we quit the Capitol, it is pity not to name Marforio; broken, old, and now almost forgotten: though once companion, or rather respondent to Pasquin, and once, a thousand years before those days, a statue of the river _Nar_, as his recumbent posture testifies; not _Mars in the forum_, as has been by some supposed.

Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781

At the farther end of the court of this Musaeum, fronting the entrance, is a handsome fountain, with the statue of a river-god reclining on his urn; this is no other than the famous Marforio, so called from its having been found in Martis Fore.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

For a long time these vaults have been used as cellars under a row of tall squalid-looking houses built over them between the Via di Marforio and the Vicolo del Ghettarello; and the sense of smell gives convincing proof that where prisoners of state used to be confined, provisions of wine, cheese, and oil have been stored.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

And Marforio answers, "Declare you are an Englishman, and swear you are a heretic."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

Marforio asking Pasquin what he had said to the cardinals upon his death-bed, Pasquin answered, "Maxima de aeipso, plurima de parentibus, parva de principibus, turpia de cardinalibus, pauca de Ecclesia, de Deo nihil."

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

The so-called "Mamertine Prison", beneath the church of S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami, via di Marforio, Rome, is generally accepted as being identical with "the prison ... in the middle of the city, overlooking the forum", mentioned by Livy (I, xxxiii).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Two statues at Rome, called Pasquino and Marforio, were used as billboards to which the people affixed squibbs and lampoons against the government and public men.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

This was ironically dedicated to Rich, under his stage name of “John Lun,” and from the dedication it appears that Rich had brought out an unsuccessful satire on Pasquin called Marforio.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

Here is the Via Giulio Romano, where the painter himself once lived; here is the Macel dei Corvi, where Michael Angelo once lodged; hard by stood the statue of Marforio, christened by the mediæval Romans after _Martis

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881