Lorem Ipsum

It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC

, making it over 2000 years old.

Richard McClintock

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" (Theand 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