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BOOK I. PROP. XXXIX. THEOR.
QUAL triangles and on the same base () and on the same side of it, are between the same parallels.
If , which joins the vertices of the triangles, be not || , draw || meeting .
∴ = , a part equal to the whole, which is absurd.
∴ ; and in the same manner it can be demonstrated, that no other line except is || ; ∴ || .
Q. E. D.