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Book I   Proposition 46
    ABED is a parallelogram;
therefore
    AB is equal to DE,
and
    AD to BE. [I.34]

But
    AB is equal to AD;
therefore
    the four straight lines BA, AD, DE, EB are equal to one another.

Therefore the parallelogram ADEB is equilateral.
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