que habían menester, y para comerlas cocidas y hacer dél las tortillas y tamales. Y ansí, al tiempo de la cosecha no cogían sino muy poco, por haberlo gastado y comido antes que se sazonase. Y luego que habían cogido lo poco, compraban gallinas y perrillos para comer, y hacían muchos tamales colorados del dicho maíz, y hechos, hacían banquetes y convidábanse unos a otros, y luego que habían comido bebían su vino. Y ansí, se comían en breve lo que habían cogido de su cosecha, y decían unos a otros: "Gastóse todo nuestro maíz, que luego daremos tras yerbas, tunas y raíces." Y decían que sus antepasados habían dicho que este mundo era así, que unas veces lo había de sobra y otras veces faltaba lo necesario. Y ansí del que en breve se comía lo que tenía, se decía y por injuria que gastaba su hacienda al uso y manera de los otomites, como si dixeran dél que bien parecía
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\n“Prickly pears”: The Spanish text reads tunas here, but the Nahuatl text reads nohpalli, which refers to the whole cactus tree that yields the prickly pears, which are called nochtli in Nahuatl. Nopal pads are still widely used in Mexican cuisine.↩
[quj]peoaltia qujqua, ic motlacovia in xilotl, ic moxoqujiacacovia, qujtlaoana in xilotl, mochi qujnamaca in aiotetl, in chilchotl: auh in ie tetzaoac tonacaiotl, oc tlapanavia qujnamaca, ic motlacovia: auh qujmelopaoaxia, qujmoxantlaxcalhuja, qujmoxantamalhuja, ic moccovia.
\nAocmo quexqujch in qujpixca, in ie cintli in jntonacaiouh, amo quitlamachcuj in qujqua, in qujnamaca oc cenca iquac in pixca, in anoço oonpixcaque, peoa in mototolcovia, in motzcujncovia, motamalhvia, tlatlaqua, mococoachioa: auh njman ie imoc, inic capachoa, ic iciuhca qujtlamja in jnpixquj,
\nqujtoa, ma iciuhca vntlamj in tonacaiotl, toconquazque in qujlitl, in cimatl, in tlanelhoatl, in nopalli, qujtoa: ca conjtotivi in tocolhoan tatacaputzveli in tlalticpac: ic ipan mjto, anoço ilhujloc, in aqujn cenca tlaqua, ano[ço]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"efaf3f0d-32c2-49b3-85da-e99f544b274c","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"they began to eat them, to buy things with the tender maize ears, to buy stinking things. They became drunk on tender maize ears. They sold all the gourds, the green chili. And when the maize was already firm, the better ones they sold to make purchases for themselves. And they cooked green maize ears, they made tortillas, they made tamales of green maize to make purchases for themselves.\n\nThere was not much more to harvest of the maize, of their ripened ears. They gathered it without care; they ate it; they sold it. Especially when they harvested, or when they had harvested, they began the buying of turkey hens, of dogs. Tamales were made; there was eating; guests were invited. And then [came] their wine to moisten the food. Thus swiftly they used up their harvest.\n\nThey said: “The maize is quickly ended. We shall eat the greens, the sweet roots, the roots, the *nopal*.” They said: “Our forefathers said that there are times of plenty and of want.” Thus of one or to one who ate much","html":"they began to eat them, to buy things with the tender maize ears, to buy stinking things. They became drunk on tender maize ears. They sold all the gourds, the green chili. And when the maize was already firm, the better ones they sold to make purchases for themselves. And they cooked green maize ears, they made tortillas, they made tamales of green maize to make purchases for themselves.
\nThere was not much more to harvest of the maize, of their ripened ears. They gathered it without care; they ate it; they sold it. Especially when they harvested, or when they had harvested, they began the buying of turkey hens, of dogs. Tamales were made; there was eating; guests were invited. And then [came] their wine to moisten the food. Thus swiftly they used up their harvest.
\nThey said: “The maize is quickly ended. We shall eat the greens, the sweet roots, the roots, the nopal.” They said: “Our forefathers said that there are times of plenty and of want.” Thus of one or to one who ate much
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