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\nY algunas veces tenían este agüero por indiferente de mal y de bien, porque decían que algunas veces el que encontraba con ella había de encontrar con alguna buena comida.
\nEsta sabandija es de de [sic, repetido] hechura de araña grande, y el cuerpo grueso, y tiene color bermejo, y a
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\nAnd sometimes they took this omen as indifferent to being good or bad, because they said that sometimes the one who stumbled upon it would find something good to eat.
\nThis bug has the shape of a big spider, with a thick body; and it has a reddish color, with some of its
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\nIntla ie vmpa itztiuh, mjctlampa: ic qujmati ca ie mjqujz, in oqujmottiti: auh intlacamo vmpa itztiuh, ic qujmati, aço çan itla in qujtoznequj, acaçomo cenca veixtica:
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\nAuh in aca çan contzonuja, aco compilova: intla otlathvic aocac qujtta: ic cenca vel qujtetzammati.
\nAuh intla çan ipã otlatvic, in çan ie vncan pilcac, ic moiollalia: amo cenca qujueimati, atle ipan conjtta. Auh injc contlalia tlanepantla, chichitl, anoço vctli: mjtoa ic contlaoantia: ioan
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\nThereupon he exhorted it; he said to it: “Wherefore didst thou come? Let me see, [that] I may hasten to marvel at it!”2 Then he placed himself facing and looked toward the direction in which it would proceed.
\nIf now it went northward, thus he who looked knew that soon he was to die. But if it did not go toward there, thereby he knew that perchance it meant something [else] perhaps of no great consequence.3
\nHe who was shown the omen said: “Let it do [what it will]; let the little insect be aspersed! Shall we none the less be involved with it? Shall we none the less go with it? Later let us know what it meaneth.”4 Then he seized it and left it at a crossroads.
\nAnd some only threaded it on a hair and hung it up. If at dawn they saw that it no longer was there, they were then filled with much dread. But if it dawned and it hung at this very same place, they were consoled thereby. Little did they think of it; as nothing did they esteem it. And when they placed it in the midst of spittle or wine, they said it was made drunk by it. And
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”hazian dos rayas en cruz en el suelo, y ponjanla en medio dellas y escupiala.”↩
Ibid.: ”A que as venjdo, qujero ver a que as venjdo.”↩
Ibid.: ”algun otro infortunjo de poca importancia.”↩
Ibid.: ”anda vete donde qujsieres, no se me da nada de ti, e de andar pensando por uentura en lo que qujsieres dezir, ello se parecera ante de mucho, no me curo de ti.”↩