Pontus ergo cornicus dicitur, ubi omnis multitudo iniquitatis animo uenenato et brachio armato adunatur et tam nocturnis quam et diurnis conciliabulis religioso principi insidiatur, unanimes instituentes, ut aut illum finibus suis exturbent uel, quod dictu nefas est, a regione uiuentium exterminent. Statuto autem die rex cum suis multitudinem conuentus illorum spectaturus aggreditur, et cognita uoluntatis eorum obstinacia rem pertractaturus ad suos reuertitur.

Sed ibidem perpaucis, quę proposuerat, ob insolentiam insanientium dispositis, furorem adunatę et conspiratę multitudinis mitigare cupiens et de se suisque prospiciens, secundum illud dominicum preceptum: 'Si uos persecuti fuerint in ciuitate una, fugite in aliam' loco cedendum instituit et, ne maior tumultus fieret, quietius abire constituit.

The place is called Pontus Cornicus, where the entire multitude of wickedness, poisoned in mind and armed in hand, assembled. By night and by day they held councils plotting against the devout prince, united in their resolve either to drive him from their land or — horrible to say — to cut him off from the land of the living.

On a set day the king advanced with his men to observe the gathered crowd. When he recognized the stubbornness of their will, he withdrew to consult with his own followers. But since only a very few of the measures he had proposed could be carried out, because of the raging insolence of the people, and wishing both to calm the fury of the assembled and conspiring multitude and to safeguard himself and his companions, he resolved to yield the place. Following the Lord’s command, “If they persecute you in one city, flee to another,” he decided to depart quietly, so that no greater turmoil might arise.