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Book VI   Proposition 1
Let ABC, ACD be triangles and EC, CF parallelograms under the same height;

I say that
    as the base BC is to the base CD,
    so is the triangle ABC to the triangle ACD
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    the parallelogram EC to the parallelogram CF.
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