{"id":118,"date":"2023-07-30T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fotademo.cozythemes.com\/fota-agency\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:28:29","slug":"consulting-a-latin-dictionary-led-to-a-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Consulting a Latin dictionary led to a passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until recently, the prevailing view assumed&nbsp;<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>&nbsp;was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Before &amp; After<\/em>&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;answered a curious reader, \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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The placeholder text, beginning with the line&nbsp;<em>\u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is&nbsp;credited&nbsp;with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of&nbsp;<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by&nbsp;<em>consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from&nbsp;<em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, the prevailing view assumed&nbsp;lorem ipsum&nbsp;was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d&nbsp;Before &amp; After&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d As Cicero would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2.png",770,520,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2-300x203.png",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2-768x519.png",768,519,true],"large":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2.png",770,520,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2.png",770,520,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/richperales.lat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/pattern_image_2-2.png",770,520,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"richar99ve","author_link":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Until recently, the prevailing view assumed&nbsp;lorem ipsum&nbsp;was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d&nbsp;Before &amp; After&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d As Cicero would...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richperales.lat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}