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Book IV   Proposition 9
Therefore
    the four straight lines EA, EB, EC, ED are equal to one another.

Therefore
    the circle described with center E and distance one of the straight lines EA, EB, EC, ED will pass also through the remaining points;
and
    it will have been circumscribed about the square ABCD.
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