Note 106 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE.
Walter Armstrong translation
Among the Lydians, says Herodotus, in his account of the adventure of Gyges (i. 10), “As among nearly all barbarous nations, it was a great indignity, even for a man, to be seen naked.” Conf. Plato, Republic, 452, c; Thucydides, i. 6; Xenophon, Hellenica, iii. iv. 19.