Lorem Ipsum is false text used in typesetting and layout before printing. Lorem Ipsum has been printing’s standard forgery since the 1500s, when an anonymous printer assembled a collection of text fragments to produce a specimen book of text fonts. It has not only survived five centuries, but has also been adapted to computerized office automation, without any change to its content. It was popularized in the 1960s by the sale of Letraset sheets containing passages from Lorem Ipsum, and more recently by its inclusion in text layout applications such as Aldus PageMaker.
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has its roots in a work of classical Latin literature dating back to 45 BC, making it 2,000 years old. A professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, took one of the most obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a passage in Lorem Ipsum, and by studying all the uses of this word in classical literature, discovered the undeniable source of Lorem Ipsum. It actually comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero’s “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (Of the Supreme Goods and the Supreme Evils). This work, very popular during the Renaissance, is a treatise on the theory of ethics. The first lines of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…”, come from section 1.10.32.
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