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Book IV   Proposition 8
    Let the straight lines AD, AB be bisected at the points E, F respectively, [I.10]
through E
    let EH be drawn parallel to either AB of CD,
and through F
    let FK be drawn parallel to either AD or BC; [I.31]

therefore
    each of the figures AK, KB, AH, HD, AG, GC, BG, GD is a parallelogram, and their opposite sides are evidently equal. [I.34]
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