I will bring you into the chamber where she and I lie and conceal you behind
 the open door; and after I have entered, my wife too will come to bed. There
 is a chair standing near the entrance of the room: on this she will lay each
 article of her clothing as she takes it off, and you will be able to look
 upon her at your leisure. Then, when she moves from the chair to the bed, turning her back on you, be
 careful she does not see you going out through the doorway.” As Gyges could not escape,
 he consented. Candaules , when he judged it to be
 time for bed, brought Gyges into the chamber; his
 wife followed presently, and when she had come in and was laying aside her
 garments, Gyges saw her; when she turned her back upon him to go to bed, he slipped from the room.
 The woman glimpsed him as he went out, and perceived what her husband had
 done. But though shamed, she did not cry out or let it be seen that she had
 perceived anything, for she meant to punish Candaules ; since among the Lydians and most of the foreign
 peoples it is felt as a great shame that even a man be seen naked.