[42] The long night of his absence or death was the mournful season of distress and anxiety, till the messengers, who had been sent to the mountain tops, descried the first rays of returning light, and proclaimed to the plain below the festival of his resurrection.

[43] [Footnote 33: See the clearness and vigor of his negotiations in Ennodius, (p.

1607,) and Cassiodorus, (Var.iii.1, 2, 3, 4; iv.

13; v.

43, 44,) who gives the different styles of friendship, counsel expostulation, &c.] [Footnote 34: Even of his table (Var.vi.