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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur quis interdum nisi. Ut euismod, justo in tristique finibus, arcu nunc laoreet purus, facilisis sodales magna metus vitae orci. Donec pretium, magna in pretium facilisis, mauris urna aliquam mi, eu finibus elit lorem in diam. Nunc vulputate urna eleifend est convallis tristique. Mauris eget ante ante. In non ante a mauris luctus efficitur. Cras et felis quam. Donec lacinia sed eros et aliquet. Vestibulum venenatis eget odio et facilisis. Nunc leo lacus, placerat eget tempus at, consequat in purus. Integer sodales dictum turpis ut accumsan. Vivamus sit amet faucibus magna. Sed consectetur varius vulputate. Aenean sit amet ex vitae est varius tincidunt eget eget sem. Nunc vel porttitor tortor. Sed vel lobortis ex. Sed porta tortor sed nulla pellentesque, non scelerisque neque pulvinar. Nam at nunc aliquet, vulputate felis nec, egestas augue. Phasellus sagittis pellentesque congue. Phasellus ut placerat mauris. Nam enim nibh, dictum sed nibh eu, laoreet venenatis tellus. Vestibulum tempor tortor vel libero convallis, non viverra tortor fermentum. Etiam venenatis pharetra neque sollicitudin placerat. Aenean aliquam auctor porttitor. Nulla faucibus, odio in finibus dictum, ipsum ex venenatis nibh, eget faucibus odio mi at elit. Maecenas a turpis eu lacus placerat faucibus id quis odio. Nam lacus ante, sodales vel ultrices id, viverra vitae sem. Maecenas et ultrices lorem. Pellentesque convallis nisi lectus, luctus dapibus ligula euismod sed. Vivamus accumsan tellus non massa auctor, eu elementum nunc tristique.

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum was born as a nonsense text. “It’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,” Before & After magazine answered a curious reader, “Its ‘words’ loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.” As Cicero would put it, “Um, not so fast.” The placeholder text, beginning with the line “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit”, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin. Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum, his interest was piqued by consectetur—a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (“On the Extremes of Good and Evil”), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero. In particular, the garbled words of lorem ipsum bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32–33 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below: “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem.” A 1914 English translation by Harris Rackham reads: “Nor is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.” McClintock’s eye for detail certainly helped narrow the whereabouts of lorem ipsum’s origin, however, the “how and when” still remain something of a mystery, with competing theories and timelines.