elgin marbles in English

noun
1
a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures and architectural fragments, chiefly from the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by the diplomat and art connoisseur Thomas Bruce (1766–1841), the 7th Earl of Elgin.

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1. The British helped themselves to the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis.

2. Never mind that Prime Ministers do not actually own the Elgin marbles.

3. The Elgin Marbles receive their name from the British lord who craftily spirited them away from Greece.

4. I think he rather gloried in the Contumely, but fifty years earlier he might have been visited by a "lettre de cachet," instead of a knighthood; for we can not forget how, in Eighteen Hundred Fifteen, Parliament refused to pay for the Elgin Marbles because, as Lord Falmouth put it, "These relics will tend to prostitute England to the depth of unbelief that engulfed Pagan Greece.