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Book I   Proposition 9
    Let a point D be taken at random on AB;

    let AE be cut off from AC equal to AD; [I.3]

    let DE be joined,
and on DE
    let the equilateral triangle DEF be constructed;

    let AF be joined.

I say that the angle BAC has been bisected by the straight line AF.
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