Este adagio se dice de aquel que echó su caudal todo en alguna mercadería y se le perdió todo en la mar o de otra manera. Para encarecer su pérdida dice icnopíllotl ommomeláuh: "El mal ha venido todo junto."
\nEste refrán se dice del que iba a negociar alguna merced con alguna persona de manera y cayó en su desgracia, y no recabó nada.
\nEste refrán se dice de aquel que sin consideración acomete algún negocio arduo para salir con él, y no salió con él, sino antes cuando cum pérdida de honra o de hacienda o de salud.
\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":"73d65bd2-37cb-409e-805f-25843cfb4794","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":"##### It cannot get any worse, or the wings cannot be blacker than the crow.\n\nThis adage is said about someone who invested all his wealth in some merchandise and [then] lost it all at sea or in some other way. To justify his loss, he says, “Icnopillotl ommomelauh,” [that is,] “Bad things came all at once.”[^105]\n\n##### I went for wool and came back shorn,[^106] or I tripped on a stone.\n\nThis saying is said about someone who was going to negotiate some favor with some person of means and ended up falling into disgrace and achieving nothing.\n\n##### I thought that I was going to win something, and I lost what I had. It happened to me just like the moth that goes near a candle at night, out of love for the light that attracts it, and ends up being burned by it.\n\nThis saying is said about someone who undertakes to succeed in some difficult business without any [prior] consideration, and he not only is unsuccessful but also loses his honor, property, or health.\n\n\n[^105]: Cf. the English proverb “When it rains, it pours.”\n\n[^106]: “I went . . . shorn”: “Fui por lana y salí trasquilado,” that is, “I got more than I bargained for.” The proverb is still very common in Spanish.","html":"This adage is said about someone who invested all his wealth in some merchandise and [then] lost it all at sea or in some other way. To justify his loss, he says, “Icnopillotl ommomelauh,” [that is,] “Bad things came all at once.”1
\nThis saying is said about someone who was going to negotiate some favor with some person of means and ended up falling into disgrace and achieving nothing.
\nThis saying is said about someone who undertakes to succeed in some difficult business without any [prior] consideration, and he not only is unsuccessful but also loses his honor, property, or health.
\nin tepallama: qujtoa. Vel nomjuh: auh intla aca çatepan oallaz, intla canaz ce maitl, anoço icxitl in ie oaxioac: mjtoa. Amo vel iomjuh.
\nIquac mjtoa: intla itla vecauhtica onjcnjxnextili: auh ne aca, ça qujoalichtequj: anoço cana temac njctlaça otlica.
\nIquac mjtoa: intla aca tlatoanj, anoço aca maviztililonj njcnotlatlauhtilia, itla ipampa, injc nechpaleviz: auh çâ ie ic qualanj, çan itlavelpan nonvetzi: aço ie vmpa no nechaoa, iuhqujnma tetitech noneoa, nonnovitequj.
\nIquac mjtoa: intla aca teaoaz, cencac motlaveltitiuh, cenca qualantiuh injc tetolinjz, injc teaoaz: auh ça ie vncan tolinjlo, pinauhtilo: iuhqujn tleco onvetzi. Itech oalqujça in tlepapalotl: in momatia acaçomo temjcti in tletl: in jquac ovetzito tleco: nj[man]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"661656d4-2204-47ad-8ab9-36170ba8a5a5","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":"the ones who had captured with others’ help, said: “It was really my arrow.” But if later someone else were to come, if he were to take an arm or a leg when [the captive] had already been taken, it was said: “It was not really his arrow.”\n\n##### Misery is complete\n\nIt is said at this time: if after much time I amassed something through my own work, and someone just stole it, or somewhere along the road I let it fall into the hands of others.\n\n##### I come against a stone\n\nIt is said at this time: if I were asking for something of some ruler or someone worthy of honor because thereby he would help me, but he only was angered by it, I fell into his fury, or he also chid me there; it would be as if I came against, I beat myself against a stone.\n\n##### I fly into the fire like a moth\n\nIt is said at this time: if someone is to wrangle with another, to go about very furious with others, much angered, in order to abuse others, to wrangle with others; but only he himself is abused, is shamed. It is as if he fell into the fire. The fire moth comes up to it thinking that perhaps the fire does not kill one. When it has gone to fall into the fire,","html":"the ones who had captured with others’ help, said: “It was really my arrow.” But if later someone else were to come, if he were to take an arm or a leg when [the captive] had already been taken, it was said: “It was not really his arrow.”
\nIt is said at this time: if after much time I amassed something through my own work, and someone just stole it, or somewhere along the road I let it fall into the hands of others.
\nIt is said at this time: if I were asking for something of some ruler or someone worthy of honor because thereby he would help me, but he only was angered by it, I fell into his fury, or he also chid me there; it would be as if I came against, I beat myself against a stone.
\nIt is said at this time: if someone is to wrangle with another, to go about very furious with others, much angered, in order to abuse others, to wrangle with others; but only he himself is abused, is shamed. It is as if he fell into the fire. The fire moth comes up to it thinking that perhaps the fire does not kill one. When it has gone to fall into the fire,
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