You probably know of Lorem ipsum, which is a placeholder text with gibberish like:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce in nisl id elit molestie imperdiet.

Now, Ipse Dixit is another generator, it produces gobbledygook like:

Igitur Lugdunenses extimulare singulos militum et clamoribus complebant, cum emissi militum globi verberibus et intento ferro turbatos disiecere.

It “runs a Markov chain algorithm over the surviving works of the Roman historian Tacitus to generate naturalistic-looking pseudo-Latin gibberish.”

You can use it as a library:

>>> import ipsedixit
>>> generator = ipsedixit.Generator()
>>> paragraphs = generator.paragraphs(n, min=2, max=4)

Or use its command-line:

$ ipsedixit -h
usage: ipsedixit.py [-h] [-v] [-min MIN] [-max MAX] [num]

positional arguments:
  num            number of paragraphs to generate (default: 4)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --version  show program's version number and exit
  -min MIN       min number of sentences per paragraph (default: 2)
  -max MAX       max number of sentences per paragraph (default: 4)

It’s made for Python 3 only, placed in Public Domain using Unlicense License, currently version 0.9.3 (2014-04-06).

“Lorem ipsum on steroids.”