[aca]bado el término de la vida a alguno de su casa o a todos, o que algún esclavo se le había de huir, o que había de venir su casa y familia a tanto riesgo que todos habían de perecer, y juntamente la casa había de ser asolada y quedar hecha muladar y lugar donde se echasen las inmundicias del cuerpo humano, y que quedase en refrán de la familia y de la casa el decir: "En este lugar vivió una persona de mucha estima y veneración y curiosidad, y agora no están sino solas las paredes. No hay memoria de quien aquí vivió."
\nEn este caso el que oía este canto del búho luego acudían al que declaraba estos agüeros para que le dixese lo que había de hacer.
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\nIn this case, the one who heard this owl’s song would promptly visit the person who interpreted these omens so that [the soothsayer] would tell him or her what to do.
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\niquac itoloz injc tlamaujçoloz: ie iuhcan ocatca in, ichan in vncan ontlamamauhtico: in vncan onmoteiotico chane: muchipa otlamavizmamanca, otlatetzcaliuhtimanca: ma cel cana ce tlaçolli ovetztoca: auh in jcaltech aiac vel omaxixaia, teaoaia:
\nauh yn axcan ie ça iuhcan, ça tepantli ieoatoc.
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\nThen it would be said, so that all might marvel: “Once, in this place, here, was the house of one who came commanding reverence. Here came a house- holder enjoying fame;1 there was always honor, and [the house] was swept clean. At least the rubbish was cast aside somewhere. And none might urinate on his walls, [or] he would chide him.
\n“But now in his very place only the walls remain standing.”2
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