[Footnote 98: This outrage produced a decree, which was
inscribed on marble, and placed in the Capitol. It is
expressed in a style of manly simplicity and freedom: Si
quis, sive privatus, sive magistratum gerens de collocanda
vivo pontifici statua mentionem facere ausit, legitimo S. P.
Q. R. decreto in perpetuum infamis et publicorum munerum
expers esto. MDXC. mense Augusto, (Vita di Sisto V. tom.
iii. p. 469.) I believe that this decree is still observed,
and I know that every monarch who deserves a statue should
himself impose the prohibition.]