Jámblico-Tractatus posthumus de divinatione magicis-51, Jean-Jacques Boissard, 1615

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. ". Date: 1615.