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Well, the unjust man we have said is unequal, and the abstract

"Unjust" unequal: further, it is plain that there is some mean of

the unequal, that is to say, the equal or exact half (because in

whatever action there is the greater and the less there is also

the equal, i.e. the exact half). If then the Unjust is unequal

the Just is equal, which all must allow without further proof:

and as the equal is a mean the Just must be also a mean. Now the

equal implies two terms at least: it follows then that the Just

is both a mean and equal, and these to certain persons; and, in

so far as it is a mean, between certain things (that is, the

greater and the less), and, so far as it is equal, between two,

and in so far as it is just it is so to certain persons. The Just

then must imply four terms at least, for those[9] to which it is

just are two, and the terms representing the things are two.