Marforion.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxvii. 44 At these days the best Epigrammes we finde, & of the sharpest conceit are those that haue bene gathered among the reliques of the two muet Satyres in Rome, Pasquill and Marphorir, which in time of Sede vacante, when merry conceited men listed to gibe & iest at the dead Pope, or any of his Cardinales, they fastened them vpon those Images which now lie in the open streets.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 139 This statua of Marforio was of late taken vp by Pope Clement the Eighth out of the valley, and placed vpon this Mount before the Capitoll.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 221 Above all is admirable the figure of Marforius, casting <water> into a most ample Concha.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xv. 92 Mr. Walden (himself a Pasquin) would thus perhaps have written to his Marforio: [etc.].

1886 Catholic World Oct. 12 He was accustomed for years to the style of the Roman satirists, the most violent in Europe, reading daily, for the amusement of his courtiers, all that Marforio and Pasquino could say against himself.

1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 183 A folio volume would not contain the witty caustic pasquinades..which from the fifteenth to the Twentieth Century have been found at Pasquino and Marforio.

1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. vi. 12 The Pasquino is one of a group of statues, known as the Congress of the Witty, that are said to talk among themselves. They include the Babuino (on Via Babuino near the Spanish Steps), the Marforio (in a Capitoline museum), [etc.].