suam, quo certior posteris proderetur, noluit a multis artificibus vulgo contaminari, sed edixit universo orbi suo, ne quis effigiem regis temere assimularet aere, colore, caelamine, quin [saepe] solus eam Policletus aere duceret, solus Apelles coloribus deliniaret, solus Pyrgoteles caelamine excuderet; praeter hos tris multo nobilissimos in suis artificiis si quis uspiam reperiretur alius sanctissimae imagini regis manus admolitus, haud secus in eum quam in sacrilegum vindicaturum.
To ensure that future generations should inherit as faithful as possible a likeness of him, he refused to have it generally muddled by a multiplicity of artists, but issued an edict to his whole world that no one should dare to reproduce the royal likeness in bronze, color, or relief; only Polycleitus should mold it in bronze, Apelles trace it in colors, Pyrgoteles carve it in relief. Apart from these three, outstandingly famous in their fields, if anyone else should be found trying his hand on the sacred royal image, he would punish the offender for nothing less than sacrilege.
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