10. When four magnitudes are proportional, the first is said to have to the fourth the triplicate ratio of that which it has to the second, and so on continually, whatever be the proportion.
Quando autem quattuor quantitates proportionales fuerint, prima ad quartam triplicem proportionem habere dicitur quam ad secundam et semper deinceps uno plures prout utique proportionalitas fuerit.