Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of
the more obscure Latin words, consectetur
- 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 a
- t Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, an
- d going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the un
- doubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Fini
- bus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the th
- eory 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.