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Book VI   Proposition 4
For
    let BC be placed in a straight line with CE.

Then
    since the angles ABC, ACB are less than two right angles; [I.17]
and
    The angle ACB is equal to the angle DEC,
therefore
    the angles ABC, DEC are less than two right angles;
therefore
    BA, ED, when produced, will meet. [I.Post.5]

    Let them be produced and meet at F.
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