The judge is intended to be a sort of living embodiment of the just. The just in distributions must accord with some sort of worth but what they call worth is not the same. The judge restores equality, as though a line had been cut into unequal parts, and he removed from the larger part the amount by which it exceeds the half of the line, and added this amount to the smaller part. And when the whole has been halved, then they say that each person has what is properly his own, when he has got an equal share.
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