이솝우화 제 126화 애꾸눈 사슴 (Perry 75. The One-eyed Stag)

올드코난 (Old Conan)이 재해석하는 현대판 이솝우화 (Aesop's Fables, Aesopica) => 원 저작자: Aesop; 참고 번역본 저자: 조지 파일러 타운센드(George Fyler Townsend, 1814-1900) 외 / 현재 알려진 이솝우화들을 현대적으로 해석해  소개해 드리겠습니다.

올드코난의 이솝우화 제 126화 애꾸눈 사슴 (Perry 75. The One-eyed Stag)

한 쪽 눈이 안보이는 애꾸눈 사슴 한 마리가 있었다. 사슴은 성한 눈은 육지 방향을 지켜 보고 안 보이는 눈은 바다를 향한 채로 풀을 뜯어 먹기 시작했다. 사슴은 바다는 안전하다 생각했다. 

그런데, 배를 타고 지나가던 선원들이 사슴을 발견하고 조심스럽게 다가오기 시작했다. 

하지만, 사슴은 여전히 육지쪽으로만 감시의 눈을 하고 있었을 뿐이다. 

그리고 배에서 내린 선원들은 순식간에 사슴을 붙잡는데 성공한다. 

깜짝 놀란 사슴은 이렇게 말했다. 

“아 비통하구나. 위험하다 여겼던 땅에서 그토록 조심했거늘, 안전하다 여겼던 바다에서 오히려 더 큰 위험이 닥치다니.”

[올드코난 한마디]

이 이야기는 운명을 벗어나기 어렵다는 의미도 있지만, 방심하지 말라는 경고가 있다. 사람들은 위험한 곳이나, 낯선 곳에서는 매우 신중하고 조심스럽게 행동하지만, 익숙하거나. 안전하다고 여기는 곳에서는 방심을 하게 되는데, 사고는 그럴 때 발생을 하는 것이다. 방심은 금물, 돌다리도 두들겨 보고 가라는 속담과도 유사한 이야기이다.

[영어 문장]

Perry 75. The One-eyed Stag

A doe with one eye thought she was safe eating while looking shoreward but then missed the archer in the boat. Oh my!

You cannot escape your fate.

1. Townsend version

A doe blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.”

2. Eliot/Jacobs Version

A Doe had had the misfortune to lose one of her eyes, and could not see any one approaching her on that side. So to avoid any danger she always used to feed on a high cliff near the sea, with her sound eye looking towards the land. By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land, and often escaped by this means. But the hunters found out that she was blind of one eye, and hiring a boat rowed under the cliff where she used to feed and shot her from the sea. “Ah,” cried she with her dying voice, “You cannot escape your fate.”

3. JBR Collection

A Doe that had but one eye, used to graze near the sea, so that she might keep her blind eye towards the water, while she surveyed the country and saw that no hunters came ncar, with the other. It happened, however, that some men in a boat saw her, and as she did not perceive their approach, they came very close, and one who had a gun, fired and shot her. In her dying agony she cried out, “Alas, hard fate! that I should receive my death-wound from the side whence I expected no ill, and be safe on that where I looked for most danger.”

4. L’Estrange version (A Stag With One Eye)

A one-eyed-stag that was affraid of the huntsmen at land, kept a watch that way with t’other eye, and fed with his blind side still toward an arm of the sea, where he thought there was no danger. In this prospect of security, he was struck with an arrow from a boat, and so ended his days with this lamentation: Here am I destroy’d, says he, where I reckon’d my self to be safe on the one hand; and no evil has befal’n me, where I most dreaded it, on the other.

 

Moral: We are lyable to many unlucky accidents that no care or foresight can prevent: but we are to provide however the best we can against them, and leave the rest to providence.

5. Cervus et Cornua Eius

Cervus, altero oculo captus, iuxta mare pasci consueverat ita ut integrum oculum in terram haberet versum; nihil enim periculi videbatur e mari impendere. Cum autem forte navis praeterveheretur, qui in illa erant, directa in cervum sagitta, incautum confixere. Ille ictus, “Me miserum,” inquit, “quantopere deceptus fui, qui a terra metui, undis fretus, e quibus mihi mors immittitur.”

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