Familiar Letters

...that they should not leave, but that the siege should be endured and auxiliary troops should be summoned from friendly towns. There were also those who thought they should leave the next day or the day after, so that there would be space to collect belongings, so that it might appear not as a flight but as a migration. There were two approaches by which it was possible to pass from the Roman city to us. One was through the bridge at which the Mole of Hadrian is, because there was doubt about the loyalty of him who held the fortress, stations of our soldiers had been placed there, and it had been fortified with a rampart and an earthwork in the manner of a camp. At the Janiculum, the walls were collapsed in some places by age. These places, too, were being filled with armed men. Resistance could undoubtedly have been made against all the force of the people, but it was meager because food supplies for only a few days were present, and royal troops were reported to be approaching, hostile to us. The opinion of those who were persuading that we should leave immediately prevailed. Therefore, our men hasten to gather their baggage and pack up their impediments. When this was done, according to the narrowness of time: first, one troop of cavalry; then the baggage, then the infantry, depart. After these, the Pope with the whole crowd of his curials. The last was the column of cavalry, who, having followed at some interval, would repel any force if it threatened from the rear. Four hours of the day remained when we left the city. We set out not without great fear, around the second hour of the night, and arrived at the village of Cesano, twelve miles from the city.

marginal note: It was imposed above. The other by the Tiber and the Janiculum hill. At the Mole of Hadrian:
marginal note: Why? At first he fled from the city.
marginal note: pack the baggage