Wilt thou see the nobility of fasting?  Compare this evening with to-morrow evening:  thou wilt see the town turned from riot and disturbance to profound calm.  Would that to-day might be like to-morrow in solemnity, and the morrow no less cheerful than to-day.  May the Lord Who has brought us to this period of time grant to us, as to gladiators and wrestlers, that we may shew firmness and constancy in the beginning of contests, and may reach that day which is the Queen of Crowns; that we may remember now the passion of salvation, and in the age to come enjoy the requital of our deeds in this life, in the just judgment of Christ.” The sermon seems to have been preached at the beginning of Lent, when Cæsarea was still suffering from Carnival indulgences.  Homily II. may be placed at a similar season in another year.