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Book I   Proposition 27
But straight lines which do not meet in either direction are parallel. [Def.23]

Therefore
    [when a straight line EF falling on the two straight lines AB, CD make the alternate angles AEF, EFD equal to one another,] AB is parallel to CD.

Being what it was required to prove.
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