ventura nos han de atajar alguna guerra para que no podamos pasar."
\nCuando platicaban estas cosas entre sí, aquel que era principal entre ellos comenzaba a esforzar y consolar a los otros menores. Y decíalos desta manera, yendo andando: "Hijos míos y hermanos míos: no conviene que nadie de vosotros se entristezca ni desmaye por el agüero que habéis oído, que ya teníamos entendido cuando partimos de nuestras casas y de nuestros parientes que veníamos a ofrecernos a la muerte, y sus lágrimas y sus lloros que nuestra presencia derramada bien las vimos, porque se acordaron y nos dieron a entender que por ventura en algún despoblado o en alguna montaña o en alguna barranca habían de quedar nuestros huesos, y sembrarse nuestros cabellos, y derramarse nuestra sangre. Y esto nos ha venido. No conviene que nadie se haga de pequeño corazón, como si fuese mujer temerosa y flaca. Aparejaos como varones para morir; orad a nuestro señor Dios; no curéis de pensar en
\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":"8f174570-f68c-4ebc-86de-74828ffe61c1","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":"some war will block our way, so that we cannot carry on.”\n\nWhenever they would be talking to each other about these things, the one who was the leader among them would start encouraging and consoling the other younger ones. And he would speak to them in this way, as he kept on walking: “My sons, my brothers: none of you should get sad or feel despair because of the omen that you have all heard, for we had already understood, when we left our homes and our families, that we were coming [here] to offer ourselves to death. And we witnessed their weeping and tears shed in our presence, for they remembered and were letting us know that perhaps our bones would be left behind, our hairs sown, and our blood spilled in some deserted spot or on some mountain or in some ravine. And so, this [omen] has reached us. No one should be faint of heart, as if he were a fearful, weak woman. Prepare to die like men; pray to our lord god. Do not bother thinking","html":"some war will block our way, so that we cannot carry on.”
\nWhenever they would be talking to each other about these things, the one who was the leader among them would start encouraging and consoling the other younger ones. And he would speak to them in this way, as he kept on walking: “My sons, my brothers: none of you should get sad or feel despair because of the omen that you have all heard, for we had already understood, when we left our homes and our families, that we were coming [here] to offer ourselves to death. And we witnessed their weeping and tears shed in our presence, for they remembered and were letting us know that perhaps our bones would be left behind, our hairs sown, and our blood spilled in some deserted spot or on some mountain or in some ravine. And so, this [omen] has reached us. No one should be faint of heart, as if he were a fearful, weak woman. Prepare to die like men; pray to our lord god. Do not bother thinking
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\nIn jquac yn, in aqujn tachcauh, in tachcauhchiuhtiuh, in tachcauh icatiuh vtlipan, vncan peoa, in qujmelaquaoa, in qujnchoqujztlapaloa, iteiccaoan, itlahoapavalvan: in vtli ipan qujmixtlamachtia, qujmjlvia.
\nXimellaquauacan, nopilhoane, noteiccaoane, quennel titotolinja: macaiac tlaocuja, nentlamati in jiollo, ca nel ic tioallaque, in timjqujco: ca iuh oalietia, iuh qujoalmattia in toiollo: injc ticoalalcaujque, tiquallalotique in tonca, in teca: in tauj, in totla, in tomach, in toueltiuh: ca ie injc techchoqujli, injc topan qujpixo, in ichoqujz, in jtlaocul: aço cana
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\nWhen this was so, he who was leader, who went commissioned leader, who proceeded as principal there along the road, then began to encourage them. He greeted his younger brethren with tears, his charges who were being taught. Along the way he instructed them and said to them:
\n“Be of good cheer, O my sons, O my younger brothers. Of what profit is it that we are afflicted? Let no one be sad or heavy of heart. In truth for this we came: we came to die; so went our hearts heavy and foreboding. Thus we went from and left our homes and the houses of others:1 our aunts, our uncles, our nephews, our elder sisters. For this reason they shed tears for us; they poured out upon us their weeping, their sorrow, that perhaps
\nProbably tonca and teca are to read tocal and tecal. In Bernardino de Sahagún, “Memoriales en 3 columnas,” Historia de las cosas de Nueva España (Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, ed.; Madrid: Hauser y Menet, 1906), Vol. VII, p. 390, the phrase is yn toca, yn teca. The corresponding Spanish text reads: ”quando partimos de nuestras casas.”↩