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Book VI   Proposition 14
But,
    as AB is to FE,
    so is DB to BE, [VI.1]
and,
    as BC is to FE,
    so is GB to BF; [VI.1]
therefore also,
    as DB is to BE,
    so is GB to BF. [V.11]

Therefore
    in the parallelograms AB, BC the sides about the equal angles are reciprocally proportional.

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