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Book VI   Proposition 27
Therefore
    of all the parallelograms applied to the same straight line and deficient by parallelogramic figures similar and similarly situated to that described on the half of the straight line, that parallelogram is greatest which is applied to the half of the straight line and is similar to the defect.

Being what it was required to prove.
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