[vigi]lante, y dispone bien los escuadrones, y con su industria y sagacidad inventa ardides para vencer, para lo cual manda hacer proveer a todos de armas y de vituallas, y hace abrir caminos, y hállase presente a todo; y hace asentar tiendas y sitiar el tiánguiz del real, y señalar centinelas o repartir los soldados para desafiar, provocar y hacer enboscadas, y para espías.
\nEl que no es tal suele ser causa de muchos males y muertes, y poner a los suyos en trabajos y peligros.
\nEl oficial de cualquier oficio mecánico primero es aprendiz y después es maestro de muchos oficios, y de tantos que dél se puede decir que él es omnis homo.
\nEl buen oficial mecánico es destas condiciones: que a él se le entiende bien el oficio, en fabricar e imaginar cualquier obra, la cual hace después con facilidad y sin pesadumbre. Al fin, él es muy apto y diestro para trazar, componer, ordenar, aplicar cada cosa por sí, a propósito.
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"f13c077a-8ee2-4241-a52b-b0faf4457dfb","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"and arranges the squadron formations well. And he uses his skill and wisdom to invent winning ruses, and for this, he commands that weapons and supplies be provided for everyone. And he orders roads to be laid out and is present everywhere; and he has tents set up, has the placement of the _tianquiz_ assigned[^29] in the camp,[^30] and has sentinels assigned or soldiers distributed to defy, provoke, lay ambushes, and act as spies.\n\nOne who is not like this is usually the cause of many evils and deaths, and of putting his own people in trouble and danger.\n\n#### Seventh chapter: On the silversmiths or feather artisans\n\nThe artisan in any mechanical trade is first an apprentice who later becomes a master of so many trades that one may say about him that he is a jack of all trades.[^31]\n\nThe good mechanical artisan has these characteristics: he is well acquainted with a trade, [capable of] fabricating and imagining any work, which he then executes with ease and without trouble. Finally, he is very apt and skillful at designing, arranging, ordering, and putting each thing in its proper place according to design. \n\n\n[^29]: _tianquiz_: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word _tianquiztli_ (market).\n\n[^30]: “Has the placement . . . camp”: _y sitiar el tiánguiz del real_. The corresponding Nahuatl passage reads _quitlalia . . . in yaotianquiztli_, which Anderson and Dibble (A&D, bk. 10, 24) translate as, “He establishes . . . the marketplaces in enemy lands.”\n\n[^31]: “A jack of all trades”: _omnis homo_ (in Latin).","html":"and arranges the squadron formations well. And he uses his skill and wisdom to invent winning ruses, and for this, he commands that weapons and supplies be provided for everyone. And he orders roads to be laid out and is present everywhere; and he has tents set up, has the placement of the tianquiz assigned1 in the camp,2 and has sentinels assigned or soldiers distributed to defy, provoke, lay ambushes, and act as spies.
\nOne who is not like this is usually the cause of many evils and deaths, and of putting his own people in trouble and danger.
\nThe artisan in any mechanical trade is first an apprentice who later becomes a master of so many trades that one may say about him that he is a jack of all trades.3
\nThe good mechanical artisan has these characteristics: he is well acquainted with a trade, [capable of] fabricating and imagining any work, which he then executes with ease and without trouble. Finally, he is very apt and skillful at designing, arranging, ordering, and putting each thing in its proper place according to design.
\ntianquiz: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word tianquiztli (market).↩
“Has the placement . . . camp”: y sitiar el tiánguiz del real. The corresponding Nahuatl passage reads quitlalia . . . in yaotianquiztli, which Anderson and Dibble (A&D, bk. 10, 24) translate as, “He establishes . . . the marketplaces in enemy lands.”↩
“A jack of all trades”: omnis homo (in Latin).↩
[tlatec]panani, quiiocoia, quipitza, quimamali in teuatl, in tlachinolli, tlauizteca, tlauiztlatoa hitacateca, hitacatzatzi, hitacatlatoa, huteca, hutemoa, tlacxitoca, quitlalia in iaoxacalli in quauhcalli in iaotianquiztli quimana in iaotlapixque cana in tlapepentli quintecpana in tlatlacaanque in mopachoq̅ in tetzaoac, tetlatoltia, quittilia in campa uel iaz toiaouh
\nIn xolopitli tlacateccatl tlacochcalcatl, tlaouitilia, tlamictia, atoiatl tepexitl quiteittitia.
\nin toltecatl tlamachtilli, toli, centzon, aman
\nIn qualli toltecatl, mozcaliani, mozcalia, mimati, moiolnonotzani tlalnamiquini In qualli toltecatl tlaiollopauiani, tlapaccachioani, tlaiuianchioani, tlamauhcachioa toltecati tlatlalia, tlahimati, tlaiocoia tlauipana, tlapopotia, tlananamictia
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a61ee2d6-e2c1-45d5-95e0-d7e9d0cd923c","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":"a maneuverer of forces. He devises the strategy; he declares, he assumes the responsibility of war. He distributes, he supervises the arms; he distributes, commands, supervises the provisioning. He lays out, he searches out the roads [to the foe]; he tracks [them]. He establishes the war huts, the prisons, the market places in enemy lands. He places the sentries, posts the chosen ones, stations the spies, the hidden ones, the concentrated ones. He interrogates them; he discovers the places where the enemy will approach.\n\nThe stupid commanding general, [or] general, causes trouble, causes death, leads one into danger.\n\n\n#### Seventh Chapter. Here is told the way of life of the goldcasters and the featherworkers.\n\n##### The craftsman\n\nThe craftsman [is] well instructed, [he is] an artisan. There were many of them.[^1]\n\nThe good craftsman [is] able, discreet, prudent, resourceful, retentive. The good craftsman [is] a willing worker, patient, calm. He works with care, he makes works of skill; he constructs, prepares, arranges, orders, fits, matches [materials].\n\n\n\n\n[^1]: Read *oman*, as apparently in *Acad. Hist. MS*. Corresponding Spanish text: *”primero es aprendiz, y despues es maestro de muchos officios, y de tantos que del se puede dezir que el es omnis homo.”*","html":"a maneuverer of forces. He devises the strategy; he declares, he assumes the responsibility of war. He distributes, he supervises the arms; he distributes, commands, supervises the provisioning. He lays out, he searches out the roads [to the foe]; he tracks [them]. He establishes the war huts, the prisons, the market places in enemy lands. He places the sentries, posts the chosen ones, stations the spies, the hidden ones, the concentrated ones. He interrogates them; he discovers the places where the enemy will approach.
\nThe stupid commanding general, [or] general, causes trouble, causes death, leads one into danger.
\nThe craftsman [is] well instructed, [he is] an artisan. There were many of them.1
\nThe good craftsman [is] able, discreet, prudent, resourceful, retentive. The good craftsman [is] a willing worker, patient, calm. He works with care, he makes works of skill; he constructs, prepares, arranges, orders, fits, matches [materials].
\nRead oman, as apparently in Acad. Hist. MS. Corresponding Spanish text: ”primero es aprendiz, y despues es maestro de muchos officios, y de tantos que del se puede dezir que el es omnis homo.”↩