Candaules

To Croesus she gives gold, to Candaules a wife, to Peleus a sword, to Nestor a shield, to Pterelaus a golden lock of hair, to Nisus a purple lock, to Alcibiades beauty, to Socrates wisdom, to Aristides justice, to the Lacedaemonians the land, to the Athenians the sea.

But this was Candaules ' answer:

before that it was called the land of the Meii.

and after I have entered, my wife too will come to bed.