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Book VI   Proposition 22
Therefore,
    if four straight lines be proportional,
    the rectilineal figures similar and similarly described upon them will also be proportional;
and
    if the rectilineal figures similar and similarly described upon them be proportional,
    the fore straight lines will themselves also be proportional.

Being what it was required to prove.
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