Gyges
Americannoun
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Also Gyes one of the Hecatonchires.
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a shepherd who found a ring making its wearer invisible. Invited by the king of Lydia secretly to view his beautiful wife naked, Gyges was incited by her to kill the king and seize the throne. During his reign, allegedly, coinage was invented.
Example Sentences
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At the risk of sounding highfalutin, it sounds like the problem posed by Plato in “The Republic” about the ring of Gyges.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2017
"The problem isn't that behavioral profiles don't work. The problem is the utility of them, because they give us so many false positives," said Bongardt, who now heads The Gyges Group, a security firm.
From Reuters ● Jun. 15, 2017
Plato told a tale of the Ring of Gyges that when put on would render you invisible.
From Time ● Jul. 8, 2015
I anticipate the worst here, not least because the Gyges effect seems already to operate in Internet trolling.
From Nature ● Apr. 22, 2015
He told of a shepherd named Gyges who stumbled upon a secret cavern with a corpse inside that wore a ring.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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