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Book VI   Proposition 3
But
    the angle AEC is equal to the exterior angle BAD, [I.29]
and
    the angle ACE is equal to the alternate angle CAD; [I.29]
therefore
    the angle BAD is also equal to the angle CAD.

Therefore
    the angle BAC has been bisected by the straight line AD.
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