a manera de pan y carne, cruda y cocida, y pescado, y todo lo que se crían en el agua, que comemos. Todo lo muelen y todo lo estragan. Hacen nido de pajuelas y otras cosas blandas. Roen las cosa de vestir, y tazan las mantas y plumas ricas, y todo lo que se guarda en arcas y cofres. Todo lo roen y destruen. Y hurtan las piedras preciosas, y ascóndenlas en sus agujeros. No dexan cosa que no destruyan, por muy guardado que esté. Daquiquí [sic] tomaron nombre los que espían y escuchan lo que se dice y hace en otras cosas para irlo a decir en otra parte. A éstos llaman quimichin o "ratones". Y daquí sale un adagio que dicen: Niquimichti, que quiere decir: "Ratonélos. Supe secretamente lo que hacían y decían mis enemigos, enviando espías que viesen, oyesen sus palabras y obras." Los ratones se matan con gatos vivos y
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\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"e69c8d1f-1566-4419-bdbf-de86bd516289","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"In jtlaqual tonacaiutl: qujqua cintli, qujquã chilli, aiotli, aiooachtli: yoan in chien, yoã in chientzotzol: qujquã cacaoatl, in cacaoatetl: vel tlacatlaqua, qujquã nochtli, in capolin. etc. qujquã tamalli: tlaxcalli, qujquã nacaxoxouhquj, in jcucic nacatl in mjchin muchi qujqua, in xoqujac: vel iuhqujn tlateci\n\nIn jtapaçol qujchioa ca çacatl: çacaiamã, no qujtemoa in tlaçotli: qujtoponia, qujtetequj in tilmatli, in quetzalli: in tlein tlaçopialonj, mochi qujtotoponja, muchi qujtlacoa: in manel cenca canjn ca, in manel cenca motlaçopia, in manel ovican, calaquj: cõhitlacoa in tlaçotli. Ic no motocaiotia qujmjchin: in tetlânenquj, ipampa in manel canjn: cacalaquj ca concaquj, ca concuj in tlatolli: yoan ontlanemilia, ic mjtoa in tlatolli Niqujmjchti: qujtoznequj, njtetlanencati: tlatetequj, tlatotopotza.\n\nInjc maci qujmjchin: mjzton, gaton qujnmjctia: momõ[via,]","html":"In jtlaqual tonacaiutl: qujqua cintli, qujquã chilli, aiotli, aiooachtli: yoan in chien, yoã in chientzotzol: qujquã cacaoatl, in cacaoatetl: vel tlacatlaqua, qujquã nochtli, in capolin. etc. qujquã tamalli: tlaxcalli, qujquã nacaxoxouhquj, in jcucic nacatl in mjchin muchi qujqua, in xoqujac: vel iuhqujn tlateci
\nIn jtapaçol qujchioa ca çacatl: çacaiamã, no qujtemoa in tlaçotli: qujtoponia, qujtetequj in tilmatli, in quetzalli: in tlein tlaçopialonj, mochi qujtotoponja, muchi qujtlacoa: in manel cenca canjn ca, in manel cenca motlaçopia, in manel ovican, calaquj: cõhitlacoa in tlaçotli. Ic no motocaiotia qujmjchin: in tetlânenquj, ipampa in manel canjn: cacalaquj ca concaquj, ca concuj in tlatolli: yoan ontlanemilia, ic mjtoa in tlatolli Niqujmjchti: qujtoznequj, njtetlanencati: tlatetequj, tlatotopotza.
\nInjc maci qujmjchin: mjzton, gaton qujnmjctia: momõ[via,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"615a3251-4930-4c51-8d41-74473172f585","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":"Its food is maize. It eats ripe ears of maize, it eats chili, gourds, gourd seeds, and *chía*, and wrinkled *chía*; it eats chocolate [and] cacao beans. It indeed eats like a human being. It eats tunas, American cherries, etc. It eats tamales, tortillas; it eats raw meat, cooked meat, fish; it eats all that which is fetid. It grinds it up.\n\nIt makes nests of grass, of soft grass. Also it hunts out articles of value. It gnaws, it shreds the capes, the precious feathers. Whatsoever is guarded as precious, it gnaws all; it damages all. No matter where it is, no matter if it is carefully guarded as precious, no matter how inaccessible the place, it enters, it damages the precious things. Hence also the eavesdropper is also called mouse, because no matter where, he continually enters the house, he hears and acquires the information and inquires into one’s affairs. Hence is said the saying, “I mouse him”; that is to say, “I eavesdrop on one.” [The eavesdropper] gnaws, frays [the information].\n\nThus is a mouse caught: the cat kills it;","html":"Its food is maize. It eats ripe ears of maize, it eats chili, gourds, gourd seeds, and chía, and wrinkled chía; it eats chocolate [and] cacao beans. It indeed eats like a human being. It eats tunas, American cherries, etc. It eats tamales, tortillas; it eats raw meat, cooked meat, fish; it eats all that which is fetid. It grinds it up.
\nIt makes nests of grass, of soft grass. Also it hunts out articles of value. It gnaws, it shreds the capes, the precious feathers. Whatsoever is guarded as precious, it gnaws all; it damages all. No matter where it is, no matter if it is carefully guarded as precious, no matter how inaccessible the place, it enters, it damages the precious things. Hence also the eavesdropper is also called mouse, because no matter where, he continually enters the house, he hears and acquires the information and inquires into one’s affairs. Hence is said the saying, “I mouse him”; that is to say, “I eavesdrop on one.” [The eavesdropper] gnaws, frays [the information].
\nThus is a mouse caught: the cat kills it;
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