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Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader<\/a>, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The placeholder text, beginning with the line\u00a0\u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>\n

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is\u00a0credited<\/a>\u00a0with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>\n

In particular, the garbled words of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32\u201333 of Cicero’s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below:<\/p>\n

\u201cNeque porro quisquam est, qui\u00a0dolorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0quia\u00a0dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed<\/em>\u00a0quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A 1914 English translation by\u00a0Harris Rackham<\/a>\u00a0reads:<\/p>\n

\u201cNor 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McClintock’s eye for detail certainly helped narrow the whereabouts of\u00a0lorem ipsum’s<\/em>\u00a0origin, however, the \u201chow and when\u201d still remain something of a mystery, with competing theories and timelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morbi in sem quis dui placerat ornare. Pellentesque odio nisi euismod in pharetra a ultricies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karolkarnowski.com\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}