cuando quiere picar, y levántase en alto y arrójese sobre lo que quiere picar. Y cuando pica, también ella muere, porque echa de un golpe toda su ponzoña, y con ella la vida.
\nwhen it wants to bite, and it lifts itself up high and throws itself on top of what it wants to bite. And when it bites, it also dies, because it releases all its poison all at once and its life along with it.
\nauh acan vel itto, in canjn onoc: auh no tlein qujqua, çã iquac neci in tequa, in jquac techoponja. Auh in aqujn qujchoponja: çan njmã mjctivetzi, amo vel ce ora in mjquj. çan vel achitonca: auh injc tequa. achtopa palanj, vel tlacpac, vel aco in iauh: auh çan ipan oaltemo in aqujn in noço tlein qujqua. Auh inic patlanj: in manoçe ic oaltemo, cenca ieheca: in quexquich ic nemj, injc patlantinemj. Auh in jquac tequa: njmã no iquac mjquj, qujl ipãpa: çan njmã mochi tlamj in itenqualac, in jztlac: ca nel noço iehoatl in jiolca, in canjn techoponja, aocmo achi contoca in choponjlonj: auh no vncan vetzi inin cooatontli
\nBut nowhere can it be seen where it is, nor what it eats. As soon as it appears, it bites one, it strikes one. And he whom it strikes dies suddenly; it is not an hour when he dies—only a very little time. And in order to bite one, first it flies, quite high up; well up it goes; and it just descends upon whom or what it bites. And when it flies or descends, a great wind blows. Wherever it goes, it flies. And when it bites one, it also dies at the same time, it is said, because all at once its poison, its venom, is used up; for in truth its seat of life is wherewith it strikes one. No longer can it bury its fangs; and also this little serpent falls there.
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