It is a geometrical proportion."-- Toullier: French Law according to the Code.
Are Achilles and Ajax associated, or are they not?
Settle that, and you settle the whole question.

If Achilles and Ajax, instead of being associated, are themselves in the service of Agamemnon who pays them, there is no objection to Aristotle's method.

The slave-owner, who controls his slaves, may give a double allowance of brandy to him who does double work.

That is the law of despotism; the right of slavery.
But if Achilles and Ajax are associated, they are equals.

What matters it that Achilles has a strength of four, while that of Ajax is only two?
The latter may always answer that he is free; that if Achilles has a strength of four, five could kill him; finally, that in doing personal service he incurs as great a risk as Achilles.