Este refrán se dice cuando alguno quiere hacer algún cunvite profano y suntuoso, y más largo de lo que puede, según su valer. Y si alguno le dice que escede los términos de la razón, para escusar su profanidad dice: ¿cuix nonen nipatzactzintli?: "¿Sólo soy yo menguado y escaso?"
\nEste refrán dice el que ha criado a alguno em buenas costumbres, y después que sale de su casa es loado de la buena crianza. El que le crió dice: ipan nonixpatlaloa: "La buena vida del discípulo es honra del maestro."
\nEste refrán dice el que tiene cargo de regir algún pueblo o república, en la cual algunos riñen o se revuelven, y si alguno le nota de negligente, para escusar su negligencia, dice: "Yo no soy más de guarda de gallinas, y si se pican ellas
\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":"766f08e8-0996-46e7-ac1e-a5585e52c494","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":"##### Am I perhaps the only one who is dwindling and almost useless?\n\nThis saying is said when someone wants to throw an irreverent and sumptuous feast, one more expensive than he can afford. And if someone tells him that he is exceeding all reasonable limits, in order to excuse his profanity, he says, “Cuix nonen nipatzactzintli?” [that is,] “Am I perhaps the only one who is diminished and short of means?”\n\n##### My face widens because of him, or my honor and reputation are increased because of him.\n\nThis saying is said by one who has raised someone to have good habits, and [this person] later on leaves his home and is praised for his good upbringing. The one who raised him says, “Ipal nonixpatlahua,” [that is,] “The student’s good life is honor to the teacher.”\n\n##### That is not my responsibility, or I am not to blame for that; I am only like the chickens’ guardian.\n\nThis saying is said by one who is responsible for ruling some town or republic where some people are quarreling or rebelling; and if someone accuses him of being negligent, in order to excuse his negligence, he says, “I am only the chickens’ guard, and if they are pecking at one another,","html":"This saying is said when someone wants to throw an irreverent and sumptuous feast, one more expensive than he can afford. And if someone tells him that he is exceeding all reasonable limits, in order to excuse his profanity, he says, “Cuix nonen nipatzactzintli?” [that is,] “Am I perhaps the only one who is diminished and short of means?”
\nThis saying is said by one who has raised someone to have good habits, and [this person] later on leaves his home and is praised for his good upbringing. The one who raised him says, “Ipal nonixpatlahua,” [that is,] “The student’s good life is honor to the teacher.”
\nThis saying is said by one who is responsible for ruling some town or republic where some people are quarreling or rebelling; and if someone accuses him of being negligent, in order to excuse his negligence, he says, “I am only the chickens’ guard, and if they are pecking at one another,
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"b01ca299-59a3-4653-a463-865c86f6ab49","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"##### Cujx no nen njpatzactzintli. \nIquac mjtoa: in amo qualli ynemjliz intla no teachcauh tecoanotza, anoço itla qujtemaca: auh no iuh njcchioaznequj njtecoanotzaz, anoço itla njctemacaz: ic mjtoa. Cujx no njpatzactzintli, anoço. Cujx no nen njpatzactzintli \n\n##### Ipal nonjxpatlaoa. \nIquac mjtoa: intla aca ipiltzin itelpuch, anoço ichpuch, anoço çan itlaoapaoal, vel oqujoapauh, vel oqujzcalti: auh ie ic iecteneoalo in jpampa in jnezcaliliz: auh ie no ic iecteneoalo in pilhoa, manoço in teoapaoanj: ic itechpa mjtoa. Ipal nonjxpatlaoa. Niteixpatlaoa. Titeixpatlaoa. etc. \n\n##### Tequjtl njtotolpixquj: cuja njqujnchopinj, mochopinjque.\nIntechpa mjtoa: in totolti in jquac moxima mochochopinja: ca in totolpixquj, amo qujchioa, injc mochochopinja totolme: ca çan monetechvia in mochochopinja. Ic no vel intechpa","html":"Iquac mjtoa: in amo qualli ynemjliz intla no teachcauh tecoanotza, anoço itla qujtemaca: auh no iuh njcchioaznequj njtecoanotzaz, anoço itla njctemacaz: ic mjtoa. Cujx no njpatzactzintli, anoço. Cujx no nen njpatzactzintli
\nIquac mjtoa: intla aca ipiltzin itelpuch, anoço ichpuch, anoço çan itlaoapaoal, vel oqujoapauh, vel oqujzcalti: auh ie ic iecteneoalo in jpampa in jnezcaliliz: auh ie no ic iecteneoalo in pilhoa, manoço in teoapaoanj: ic itechpa mjtoa. Ipal nonjxpatlaoa. Niteixpatlaoa. Titeixpatlaoa. etc.
\nIntechpa mjtoa: in totolti in jquac moxima mochochopinja: ca in totolpixquj, amo qujchioa, injc mochochopinja totolme: ca çan monetechvia in mochochopinja. Ic no vel intechpa
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"43f89349-e732-4ad8-9633-01e4eb73284b","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":"##### Am I also perchance a useless, withered ear of maize?\n\nIt is said at this time: if one not of means, also if a captain invites one to a banquet, or gives him something, and likewise I wish to do the same, to invite him to a banquet or to give him something, then it is said: “Am I also perchance a withered ear of maize?” or, “Am I also a useless, withered ear of maize?”\n\n##### Through him I extend my fame\n\nIt is said at this time: if someone has trained well, reared well, his child, his youth, or his daughter, or merely his student, and [the child] is thus praised on account of his rearing, and also the parent or the teacher are well praised on this account, therefore it is said of one: “Through him I extend my fame”; “I extend one’s fame”; “We extend one’s fame,” etc.\n\n##### My task is to guard turkeys. Shall I peck at those who peck at one another?\n\nIt is said concerning this: The turkeys, when they preen, constantly peck at one another. The turkey guardian does not bring it about that turkeys constantly peck at one another, for they simply fight among themselves as they constantly peck at each other. Hence it may well","html":"It is said at this time: if one not of means, also if a captain invites one to a banquet, or gives him something, and likewise I wish to do the same, to invite him to a banquet or to give him something, then it is said: “Am I also perchance a withered ear of maize?” or, “Am I also a useless, withered ear of maize?”
\nIt is said at this time: if someone has trained well, reared well, his child, his youth, or his daughter, or merely his student, and [the child] is thus praised on account of his rearing, and also the parent or the teacher are well praised on this account, therefore it is said of one: “Through him I extend my fame”; “I extend one’s fame”; “We extend one’s fame,” etc.
\nIt is said concerning this: The turkeys, when they preen, constantly peck at one another. The turkey guardian does not bring it about that turkeys constantly peck at one another, for they simply fight among themselves as they constantly peck at each other. Hence it may well
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