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Book VI   Proposition 14
For
    let the parallelogram FE be completed.

Then, since
    the parallelogram AB is equal to the parallelogram BC,
and
    FE is another area,
therefore,
    as AB is to FE,
    so is BC to FE. [V.7]
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