Les ouvriers coupaient la plaine par une longue tranchée profonde de huit pieds et aussi étroite que possible ; on était occupé à rechercher, le long de l’ancienne voie romaine, les ruines d’un second temple qui, disait-on dans le pays, existait encore au Moyen Age.
The workmen were intersecting the plain with a long trench, eight feet deep and as narrow as possible: they were engaged in seeking, along the old Roman Way, for the ruins of a second temple which, according to local reports, had still been in existence in the Middle Ages.