"For I will arrange it so that she does not even know that she was seen by you. I will place you behind the opening door in the room where we sleep. After I have entered, my wife will also come in for bed. A chair stands near the entrance; she will place her garments on it one by one as she takes them off, and she will allow you to look upon her in great peace. But when she walks from the chair toward the bed and you are behind her back, let it be your concern from then on that she does not see you going through the doorway."
Since he could not escape, he was ready. Candaules, when he thought the time for bed had arrived, led Gyges into the room, and shortly after this, the woman also arrived. Gyges watched her as she entered and put down her clothes. When she was behind her back as the woman was going toward the bed, he slipped out and went outside, and the woman caught sight of him leaving. Realizing what had been done by her husband, she neither cried out in shame nor acted as though she had noticed, having in mind to punish Candaules. For among the Lydians, and indeed among almost all other barbarians, it brings great shame even for a man to be seen naked.
11 At that time, she remained silent, showing nothing; but as soon as day had come, she made ready those of her servants whom she saw were most loyal to her and summoned Gyges. He, thinking that she knew nothing of what had been done, came when summoned; for he was accustomed, whenever the Queen called, to go. When Gyges arrived, the woman spoke these words: "Now, Gyges, I give you a choice of two paths, whichever you wish to take. Either kill Candaules and take both me and the Lydian kingdom, or you must die yourself right now, so that you do not see what you ought not to see by obeying Candaules in everything for the future. But either he who plotted these things must perish, or you, who looked upon me naked and did unlawful things."