VII.25¶
If two numbers be prime to one another, the product of one of them into itself will be prime to the remaining one.
Let A, B be two numbers prime to one another, and let A by multiplying itself make C: I say that B, C are prime to one another.
For let D be made equal to A.
Since A, B are prime to one another, and A is equal to D, therefore D, B are also prime to one another.
Therefore each of the two numbers D, A is prime to B; therefore the product of D, A will also be prime to B. [VII.24]
But the number which is the product of D, A is C.
Therefore C, B are prime to one another. Q. E. D. The Greek, ὁ ἐκ τοῦ ἑνὸς αὐτῶν γενόμενος, literally the number produced from the one of them, leaves multiplied into itself to be understood.