If a straight line falling on two straight lines make the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite angle on the same side, or the interior angles on the same side equal to two right angles, the straight lines will be parallel to one another.
      For let the straight line EF
      falling on the two straight lines
      AB, CD
      make the exterior angle EGB
      equal to the interior and opposite
      angle GHD, or the
      interior angles on the same side, namely
      BGH, GHD,
      equal to two right angles;
      I say that AB is parallel
      to CD.
     
      For, since the angle EGB
      is equal to the
      angle GHD,
      while the angle EGB
      is equal to the angle AGH,
      
      [I. 15]
      
      the angle AGH is also equal to
      the angle GHD;
      and they are alternate;
      therefore AB is parallel to
      CD.
      
      [I. 27]
      
     
      Again, since the angles
      BGH, GHD
      are equal to two right angles, and the angles
      AGH, BGH
      are also equal to two right angles,
      
      [I. 13]
      
      the angles AGH,
      BGH are equal to the angles
      BGH, GHD.
     
      Let the angle BGH be subtracted from
      each;
      therefore the remaining angle AGH
      is equal to the remaining
      angle GHD;
      and they are alternate;
      therefore AB is parallel to
      CD.
      
      [I. 27]
      
     
Therefore etc. Q.E.D.
Book I: Euclid, Elements, Book I (ed. Sir Thomas L. Heath 1st Edition, 1908)
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