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Gyges

also: Gyges, Gygi, Gyges the Lydian

A shepherd of Lydia who, in Plato's Republic, found a ring that made him invisible and used it to seize the throne by adultery and murder. Cicero uses the tale to test whether a wise man would do wrong if certain of impunity.

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