Jámblico-Tractatus posthumus de divinatione magicis-51

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Iamblichus, copper engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry for the "Tractatus posthumus de divinatione & magicis præstigiis" by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), Oppenheim, 1615. National Library of Spain. The caption reads: Utilis fuerat nobis nescire futura: Cogor enim irato fata Valente pati These lines are attributed to Jean-Jacques Boissard. The words translate as something like: "It would have been useful for us not to know the future: For I am forced to suffer the wrath of fate."