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that their successors in name & territory \/ of the present day a various mixture of barbarous nations neither[deleted] \/ neither know nor are interested in the possessions or sufferings of \/ their long past predecessors and changes and destruction of sue- \/ =ceeding \/ ages have enveloped the memory of their descendants in \/ such impenetrable darkness that we are uncertain whether any \/ race or even particular family now living can fairly claim Ink recto."},{"id":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/40851\/inscription\/2","type":"LinguisticObject","classified_as":[{"id":"http:\/\/vocab.getty.edu\/aat\/300435414","type":"Type","_label":"Inscription Description"},{"id":"http:\/\/vocab.getty.edu\/aat\/300418049","type":"Type","_label":"Brief Text"}],"content":"the distinction of being their direct representatives - \/ as they cannot now be restored to their original owners, \/ who can justly and reasonably plead so good a claim to \/ their possessions as those whose Intelligence, exertions \/ and benevolence have rescued these precious remains from their graves and generously given them to the public \/ for the purpose of promoting knowledge and raising the \/ intelligence to elevated and worth pursuits? \/ These precious remains were not obtained by the \/ Italian Nobles without considerable expence[sic] for the Medici \/ Family appear to have paid 1800 Crowns for the group of \/ boxers when it was first found, one of the figures being \/ headless which sum is more than equal to 2000 \u00a3 value \/ of our money in England at this day and Cardinal \/ Borghese \/ built the front of a Church in recompence[sic] \/ for the beautiful statue of Hermaphrodite lately in the \/ Borghese Villa on the Pincian Hill, we may form some opinion of the sums expended in restoring the \/ works of Antiquity from the following instance, \/ A beautiful and extensive mosaic pavement con \/ =taining two every large circular friezes of figures, \/ the subject of one the 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