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There are people who have a notion that Reciprocation is simply

just, as the Pythagoreans said: for they defined the Just simply

and without qualification as "That which reciprocates with

another." But this simple Reciprocation will not fit on either to

the Distributive Just, or the Corrective (and yet this is the

interpretation they put on the Rhadamanthian rule of Just,

If a man should suffer what he hath done, then there would be

straightforward justice;")

for in many cases differences arise: as, for instance, suppose

one in authority has struck a man, he is not to be struck in

turn; or if a man has struck one in authority, he must not only

be struck but punished also.[16] And again, the voluntariness or

involuntariness of actions makes a great difference.