Apelles, An excellent painter in the time of great Alerander, borne in the yle of Cos, of whome oncly Alexander woulde be painted. When he dyed, he left an Image of Venus vnperformed, which no man after him durst enterprise to sinish, for the incomparable beautie thereof.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăpelles, is (voc. Apella, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 101, as if from the Doric *)apella=s), m., = *)apellh=s, a distinguished Greek painter in the time of Alexander the Great, Plin. 35, 10, 36, 10; Cic. Brut. 18, 70; id. Off. 3, 2, 10; id. Fam. 1, 9; Prop. 4, 8, 11 al.—Hence, Ăpellēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Apelles: opus, Mart. 7, 83: tabulae, Prop. 1, 2, 22 al.