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Updated: June 11, 2025
Therefore let no vain scruples of fidelity cause you to hesitate. Think that I will make you King of Sardes, and that... I will love you if you avenge me. The blood of Candaules will be your purple, and his death will make for you a place in that bed.
At last Candaules appeared, riding in a chariot drawn by four horses, as beautiful and spirited as those of the sun, all rolling their golden bits in foam, shaking their purple-decked manes, and restrained with great difficulty by the driver, who stood erect at the side of Candaules, and was leaning back to gain more power on the reins.
'Well, Nyssia, are you not coming to sleep with me? exclaimed Candaules, seeing that the queen was not hurrying herself in the least, and feeling desirous to abridge the watch of Gyges. 'Yes, my dear lord, I will soon be ready, answered Nyssia. And she detached the cameo which fastened the peplum upon her shoulder. There remained only the tunic to let fall.
Compared with Candaules, Midas, who changed all things to gold, were only a mendicant as poor as Irus." Gyges listened with astonishment to this discourse of Candaules, and sought to penetrate the hidden sense of these lyric divagations.
And as lovers are extremely pleased with the sight of their beloved, so they praise with as much satisfaction as they behold; and as love is talkative in everything, so more especially in commendation; for lovers themselves believe, and would have all others think, that the object of their passion is pleasing and excellent; and this made Candaules the Lydian force Gyges into his chamber to behold the beauty of his naked wife.
The circumstances were as follows: The name of the last monarch of the old dynasty the one, namely, whom Gyges displaced was Candaules. Gyges was a household servant in Candaules's family a sort of slave, in fact, and yet, as such slaves often were in those rude days, a personal favorite and boon companion of his master. Candaules was a dissolute and unprincipled tyrant.
Candaules is assassinated. Gyges succeeds. The Lydian power extended. The wars of Alyattes. Destruction of Minerva's temple. Stratagem of Thrasybulus Success of the stratagem. A treaty of peace concluded. Story of Arion and the dolphin. The alternative. Arion leaps into the sea. He is preserved by a dolphin. Death of Alyattes. Succession of Croesus. Plans of Croesus for subjugating the islands.
These arguments were very rational but wholly useless, for at the same moment Candaules entered the chamber, and exclaimed in a low but distinct voice as he passed the door: 'Patience, my poor Gyges, Nyssia will soon come. When he saw that he could no longer retreat, Gyges, who was but a young man after all, forgot every other consideration, and no longer thought of aught save the happiness of feasting his eyes upon the charming spectacle which Candaules was about to offer him.
Return to your hiding-place, Gyges, and though the hours of waiting may seem long, I can swear by Eros of the Golden Arrows that you will not regret having waited. After this assurance Candaules left Gyges again hidden behind the door. 'The compulsory quiet which the king's young confidant found himself obliged to maintain left him ample leisure for thought.
'It is thus, she would exclaim, as she withdrew, draped to her very eyes, into the most mysterious recesses of her apartment, 'that one treats a mistress, not a virtuous woman of noble blood! These wise remonstrances did not cure Candaules, whose passion augmented in inverse ratio to the coldness shown him by the queen.
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