Gesta Silvestri
Fresco in San Silvestro Chapel at Santi Quattro Coronati , Rome - Pope Sylvester I and Constantine «What wonderful authority this is, what wonderful testimony, an unassailable demonstration! I grant you that Gelasius said this when he was speaking in the Council of Seventy Bishops. But he did not say, did he, that the item about the donation is read in the Acts of the most blessed Sylvester? He only says that the Acts of Sylvester are read, and at Rome, and that many other churches follow the authority of Rome’s church. This I do not deny. I concede it, I admit it, I present myself as a witness along with Gelasius. But what does it for you, except that you appear to have deliberately lied in the producing witnesses? No one knows the name of the man who wrote this in the decrees, and he is the only who says it. No one knows the name of the man who wrote the history, and he is the only one brought forward as a witness, and falsely too. Do you, good and sagacious people, think ...