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Book IV   Proposition 5
therefore
    the circle described with center F and distance one of the straight lines FA, FB, FC will pass also through the remaining points,
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    will have been circumscribed about the triangle ABC.

Therefore
    about the given triangle a circle has been circumscribed.

Being what it was required to do.
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