[Footnote 68: Piissimo Constantino magno, per ejus
largitatem S. R. Ecclesia elevata et exaltata est, et
potestatem in his Hesperiae partibus largiri olignatus est
.... Quia ecce novus Constantinus his temporibus, &c.,
(Codex Carolin. epist. 49, in tom. iii. part ii. p. 195.)
Pagi (Critica, A.D. 324, No. 16) ascribes them to an
impostor of the viiith century, who borrowed the name of St.
Isidore: his humble title of Peccator was ignorantly, but
aptly, turned into Mercator: his merchandise was indeed
profitable, and a few sheets of paper were sold for much
wealth and power.]