a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin.[not in body]
The first two words are the truncation of dolorem ipsum
- (“pain itself”). Lorem
- ipsum’s purpose is
- to permit a page layout to
- be designed, independently o
- f the copy that will subsequently popul
- ate it, or to demonstrate various fonts of a typeface
- without meaningful text that could be distracting.