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Book VI   Proposition 19
Now, since
    as BC is to EF,
    so is EF to BG,
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    if three straight lines be proportional, the first has to the third a ratio duplicate of that which it has to the second, [V. Def.9]
therefore
    BC has to BG a ratio duplicate of that which BC has to EF.
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