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Gyges, unable to escape, could but declare his readiness. Then
Candaules, when bedtime came, led Gyges into his sleeping-chamber,
and a moment after the queen followed. She entered, and laid her
garments on the chair, and Gyges gazed on her. After a while she
moved toward the bed, and her back being then turned, he glided
stealthily from the apartment. As he was passing out, however, she
saw him, and instantly divining what had happened, she neither
screamed as her shame impelled her, nor even appeared to have noticed
aught, purposing to take vengeance upon the husband who had so
affronted her. For among the Lydians, and indeed among the
barbarians generally, it is reckoned a deep disgrace, even to a man,
to be seen naked.
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