Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical
Latin literature from
45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in
Virginia, looked up
one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of
the word in
classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33
of "de Finibus
Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on
the theory of
ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical
Latin literature from
45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in
Virginia, looked up
one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of
the word in
classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33
of "de Finibus
Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on
the theory of
ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
