Gyges

And Euphorion, in his work On the Aleuadae, places him in the time of Gyges, who began to reign from the eighteenth Olympiad, and whom he says was the first to be called "tyrant.

This Gyges then was the first foreigner whom we know who placed offerings at Delphi after the king of Phrygia, Midas son of Gordias.

For when the Lydians took exception to what was done to Candaules, and took up arms, the faction of Gyges came to an agreement with the rest of the people that if the oracle should ordain him king of the Lydians, then he would reign;

This gold and the silver offered by Gyges is called by the Delphians “Gygian” after its dedicator.

The licence that I mean would be most nearly such as would result from supposing them to have the power which men say once came to the ancestor of Gyges the Lydian.