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.

This Candaules, then, fell in love with his own wife, so much so that he believed her to be by far the most beautiful woman in the world;

After a little while, Candaules, doomed to misfortune, spoke to Gyges thus:

Candaules, when he judged it to be time for bed, brought Gyges into the chamber;