Francophones!

[hawkwing_lb]

I crave, O Francophones, your assistance.

If you could translate for me the phrase, suivant pas à pas le texte, I will pour a libation in your honour to the deity of your choice.

Or, you know, just buy you a drink if I ever find you in a bar.

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

"following the text step by step."

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

(I am reading a very interesting review of Saint Paul face aux philosophes épicureans et stoiciens. Ouverture philosophique. And while my French is almost adequate to the task, that phrase was bewildering me beyond bearing.)

To whom should I libate? :)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a bringer of sleep?

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Μορφεύς and Ὕπνος, gentle sons of eldest Night?

(I'm drugged up on cough medicine, which is also a bringer of sleep, but I shan't libate that, not ever.)

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Woot, I can read the names! Context is my friend. And yes, thank you, that would be lovely.

I hope your unlibated cough syrup does its thing fast.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The more Greek I learn, the more I like to write it. :P

*libates with rum, in the absence of wine*

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Rum also has sleep-giving properties. Or so I'm told. Ahem.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

But why is the rum gone?

/ob. Jack Sparrow.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Dang, beat me to it. :-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

*shares remaining rum*

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Mmm, rum drinks! Pineapple juice, orange juice, grenadine and rum...it had no name, but it was fruity and delicious.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

My rum ration is well-watered. :P

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Rum'n'cough syrup isn't as fun as it sounds, honest. Or so I am told. Ahem. (Well, really I'm extrapolating from hot-whiskey'n'cough syrup. I cannot recommend it.)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Alas. I do not have syrup, only drugs.

*mixes medicaments with alcohol*