What is Lorem Epsom?
Lorem Ipsum is simply a formality (meaning the object is the form and not the content) and is used in the printing and publishing industries. Lorim Epsom has been the standard for formal text since the 15th century when an anonymous press lined up a group of letters randomly taken from text, to form a booklet as a guide or a formal reference for these letters. Five centuries did not eliminate this text. Rather, it even became used in its original form for electronic printing and typesetting. It spread widely in the sixties of this century with the release of plastic chips (Letraset) containing sections of this text, and it returned to spread again recently with the emergence of electronic publishing programs such as "Aldus PageMaker", which also contained copies of the text Lorim Epsom.
What is its origin?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorim Epsom is not a random text, but rather has roots in classical Latin literature since 45 BC, which makes him more than 2000 years old. Professor Richard McClintock, a professor of Latin at the University of Hampden-Sydney in Virginia, searched for the origins of a mysterious Latin word in the text of Lorem Epsom, "consectetur", and while following this word in Latin literature he discovered the unquestionable source. It turns out that the words of Lorim Epsom's text come from Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from the book "Finals of Good and Evil" (de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum) by Cicero, who wrote it in 45 BC. This book is a lengthy scholarly article on ethics, and it was very popular in the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet .. comes from a line in section 1.20.32 of this book.
For those interested we have placed the standard Lorem Epsom text used since the 15th century below. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "About the Far reaches of Good and Evil" (de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum) were also made available to Cicero in their original form, accompanied by English versions which were translated by H. Rackham in 1914.