There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in
some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going
to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of
text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making
this
the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a
handful
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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..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections
1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original
form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.