Of many of these even the sites were unknown until they were recently discovered by the archæologists of Europe. The site of the famous temple of Diana at Ephesus was not identified until 1869, although this celebrated structure was once classed as one of the seven wonders of the world. Nowhere in Asia Minor does one find anything to compare with the stately temples of Pæstum, Girgenti, and Segesta which, with the exception of the wonderful monuments in Athens, are the most remarkable and best preserved groups of ancient Greek architecture in existence.
[192] The region through which they marched was described in the graphic language of an old chronicler as Terram horroris et salsuginis, terram siccam, sterilem, inamœnam.
[193] The History of the Crusades, Vol. 1. p. 126 (New York, n. d.).
[194] Ibid., p. 257.
[195] Ibid., p. 258.
[196] Called by Cicero Tauri-Pylæ.
[197] As legend has it, Charlemagne sleeps in Odenberg, in Hesse, where crowned and armed and girt with his trusty sword, La Joyeuse, he awaits the advent of Anti-Christ when he will awake and deliver Christendom.
Bonaparte, it is supposed in certain parts of France, will again return to restore the country to its pristine glory. When Louis Napoleon submitted the plebiscite to the countrymen, many gave their vote under the impression that it was in support of his famous uncle.
[198] Lares et Penates or Cilicia and Its Governors, p. 79 (by W. B. Barker, London, 1853).
[199] Barker, op. cit., p. 82.