우정과 노년 / Treatises on Friendship and Old Age (영문판)

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'우정과 노년 / Treatises on Friendship and Old Age (영문판)'은 고대 로마의 대문호 키케로가 남긴 우정과 노년의 본질에 대한 사유를 담은 저작물입니다. 이 책은 인생에서 가장 소중한 가치 중 하나인 우정의 의미와, 인생의 황혼기인 노년에 대한 깊은 통찰을 전해줍니다. 키케로는 탁월한 문체와 논리로 우정의 중요성과 노년의 지혜를 논하며, 오늘날에도 그 의미는 여전히 유효합니다. 영문판으로 읽을 경우, 고전의 원문을 직접 접하면서 라틴 문화와 사유 체계, 고대 로마의 세계관을 더 생생하게 이해할 수 있다는 장점이 있습니다. 영어로 된 번역본을 통해 독자들은 키케로의 사유를 놓치지 않고 현대적 감각으로 받아들일 수 있습니다.

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
ON FRIENDSHIP
ON OLD AGE
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THE augur Quintus Mucius Scaevola used to recount a number of stories about his father-in-law Galus Laelius, accurately remembered and charmingly told; and whenever he talked about him always gave him the title of "the wise" without any hesitation. I had been introduced by my father to Scaevola as soon as I had assumed the toga virilis, and I took advantage of the introduction never to quit the venerable man’s side as long as I was able to stay and he was spared to us. The consequence was that I committed to memory many disquisitions of his, as well as many short pointed apophthegms, and, in short, took as much advantage of his wisdom as I could. When he died, I attached myself to Scaevola the Pontifex, whom I may venture to call quite the most distinguished of our countrymen for ability and uprightness. But of this latter I shall take other occasions to speak. To return to Scaevola the augur. Among many other occasions I particularly remember one. He was sitting on a semicircular garden-bench, as was his custom, when I and a very few intimate friends were there, and he chanced to turn the conversation upon a subject which about that time was in many people’s mouths. You must remember, Atticus, for you were very intimate with Publius Sulpicius, what expressions of astonishment, or even indignation, were called forth by his mortal quarrel, as tribune, with the consul Quintus Pompeius, with whom he had formerly lived on terms of the closest intimacy and affection. Well, on this occasion, happening to mention this particular circumstance, Scaevola detailed to us a discourse of Laelius on friendship delivered to himself and Laelius’s other son-in-law Galus Fannius, son of Marcus Fannius, a few days after the death of Africanus. The points of that discussion I committed to memory, and have arranged them in this book at my own discretion. For I have brought the speakers, as it were, personally on to my stage to prevent the constant "said I" and "said he" of a narrative, and to give the discourse the air of being orally delivered in our hearing.
You have often urged me to write something on Friendship, and I quite acknowledged that the subject seemed one worth everybody’s investigation, and specially suited to the close intimacy that has existed between you and me. Accordingly I was quite ready to benefit the public at your request.
As to the dramatis personae. In the treatise on Old Age, which I dedicated to you, I introduced Cato as chief speaker. No one, I thought, could with greater propriety speak on old age than one who had been an old man longer than any one else, and had been exceptionally vigorous in his old age. Similarly, having learnt from tradition that of all friendships that between Gaius Laelius and Publius Scipio was the most remarkable, I thought Laelius was just the person to support the chief part in a discussion on friendship which Scaevola remembered him to have actually taken. Moreover, a discussion of this sort gains somehow in weight from the authority of men of ancient days, especially if they happen to have been distinguished. So it comes about that in reading over what I have myself written I have a feeling at times that it is actually Cato that is speaking, not I.
Finally, as I sent the former essay to you as a gift from one old man to another, so I have dedicated this On Friendship as a most affectionate friend to his friend. In the former Cato spoke, who was the oldest and wisest man of his day; in this Laelius speaks on friendship—Laelius, who was at once a wise man (that was the title given him) and eminent for his famous friendship. Please forget me for a while; imagine Laelius to be speaking.

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키케로(Marcus Tullius Cicero, 기원전 106~43)는 고대 로마의 저명한 철학자이자 웅변가, 정치가, 작가입니다. 풍부한 인문학적 소양과 뛰어난 논리력으로 수많은 저서를 남겼으며, 그가 남긴 글은 라틴어 문학의 정수로 평가받고 있습니다. 키케로는 공화정의 이상을 실현하고자 노력한 인물로, 정치적 격동기 속에서도 인간과 사회, 그리고 윤리에 대한 깊은 통찰을 담아내어 동서양 지성사에 큰 영향을 끼쳤습니다.