"or you, the one who looked upon me naked and did things not permitted." Gyges, for a time, was amazed at what was said, but then he begged her not to force him to make such a choice. As he did not persuade her, but saw that a necessity was truly laid before him: either to kill his master or be killed by others, he chose to survive himself. He inquired, saying this: "Since you force me to kill my master against my will, come, let me hear in what way we shall make an attempt upon him."
She replied, saying, "The approach will be from the same place where he exposed me naked, and the attempt will be made while he is asleep."
12 When they had prepared the plot, night having come (for Gyges was not released, nor was there any escape for him, but it was necessary for either him or Candaules to perish), he followed the woman to the chamber, and she, having given him a dagger, hid him behind the same door. And after this, as Candaules was resting, he slipped out and killed him, and Gyges held both the woman and the kingdom This event was mentioned by Archilochus of Paros, who lived at the same time, in an iambic trimeter poem.. He held the kingdom and was established by the oracle at Delphi. For since the Lydians were indignant at the fate of Candaules and were in arms, the partisans of Gyges and the rest of the Lydians agreed that if the oracle should declare him king of the Lydians, he would reign, but if not, he would return the power to the Heraclidae. The oracle declared it, and so Gyges reigned. However, the Pythia the priestess of the oracle said this much: that vengeance for the Heraclidae would come upon the fifth descendant of Gyges. The Lydians and their kings took no account of this word, until it was fulfilled.
14 Thus the Mermnadae held the tyranny, having taken it from the Heraclidae, and Gyges, having become tyrant, sent not a few offerings to Delphi, but as many as were of silver...