elem.5.def.9

When three magnitudes are proportional, the first is said to have to the third the duplicate ratio of that which it has to the second. Ὅταν δὲ τρία μεγέθη ἀνάλογον ᾖ, τὸ πρῶτον πρὸς τὸ τρίτον διπλασίονα λόγον ἔχειν λέγεται ἤπερ πρὸς τὸ δεύτερον.