The Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero’s ‘De finibus bonorum et malorum’. The physical source may have been the 1914 edition of De finibus, where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with “Neque porro quisquam est qui do-” and continues on page 36 with “lorem ipsum …“, suggesting that the of that page was mixed up to make the dummy text seen today

The discovery of the text’s origin is attributed to Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar at. McClintock connected Lorem ipsum to Cicero’s writing sometime before 1982 while searching for instances of the Latin word which was rarely used in classical literature. McClintock first published his discovery in a 1994 letter to the editor of Before & After magazine, contesting the editor’s earlier claim that Lorem ipsum held no meaning.