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the angle ADC is an angle in a semicircle,
it is right. [III.31]
And, since,
in the right-angled triangle ADC,
DB has been drawn from the right angle perpendicular to the base,
therefore
DB is a mean proportional between the segments of the base, AB, BC. [VI.8, Por.]
