Origins Quiz — Thursday, October 22, 2026

What two-word phrase opens the dummy text designers pour into a layout before the real words arrive? It is scrambled Latin from a Cicero essay on ethics, and a classics professor tracked down the source in the 1990s. (Two words: 5, 5 letters)

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