Esta letra quiere decir: "Cosa espinosa o escabrosa, que no osan llegar a ella por las espinas o cambrones que tiene." Y por metáfora quiere decir: "Persona venerable y digna de ser tenida y acatada, como son los señores y cónsoles que rigen la república." Dicen dellos in huitzyo, in ahuayo. Temíanlos a los tales como a bestia fiera.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Cosa dulce y sabrosa de comer." Y por metáfora se dice del pueblo o tierra que es deleitosa y abundosa. Dicen: "tal o tal lugar, tal o tal tierra tzopélic, ahuíac".
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Cabellos, uñas, espina o cambrón, barbas, cejas, estilla de piedra preciosa." Por metáfora se dice del que es noble o generoso o de linaje de señores, hombre o mujer, ca tetzon, ca teizti, tehuitzyo, tetentzon, etcétera.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Cara y oreja de alguno." Y por metáfora se dice de los embaxadores que llevan las embaxadas de unos señores a otros señores, y donde llevan
\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":"c3916ccf-e487-40cf-9eac-b2cc68a20037","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":"##### _In huitzyo, in ahahuayo_\n\nThis phrase means “thorny or rough thing, [so much so] that they do not dare approach it because of the thorns and prickly brambles that it has.” And as a metaphor, it means “venerable person who is worthy of being respected and obeyed, such as the lords and consuls who rule the republic.” They say about such people, “In huitzyo, in ahuayo.” They feared such people as if they were fierce beasts.\n\n##### _Tzopelic, ahuiyac_\n\nThis phrase means “a thing that is sweet and delicious to eat.” And it is said as a metaphor for a town or a land that is delightful and abundant. They say, “This or that place, this or that land is _tzopelic, ahuiac_.”\n\n##### _Tetzon, teizti, tehuitzyo, teahuayo, tetentzon, teixcuamul, tetzicueuhca, tetlapanca_\n\nThis phrase means “hair, fingernails, thorn or bramble, beard, eyebrows, chip of a precious stone.” It is said as a metaphor for someone—either a man or a woman—who is noble, wellborn, or of noble lineage: “Ca tetzon, ca teizti, tehuitzyo, tetenzton,”[^123] et cetera.\n\n##### _Teix, tenacaz_\n\nThis phrase means “someone’s face and ear.” And it is said as a metaphor for the ambassadors who bring delegations from some lords to other lords. And wherever they bring \n\n\n[^123]: “Ca tetzon, ca teizti, tehuitzyo, tetenzton”: “One’s hair, one’s nails, one’s [maguey] spikes, one’s thorns.”","html":"This phrase means “thorny or rough thing, [so much so] that they do not dare approach it because of the thorns and prickly brambles that it has.” And as a metaphor, it means “venerable person who is worthy of being respected and obeyed, such as the lords and consuls who rule the republic.” They say about such people, “In huitzyo, in ahuayo.” They feared such people as if they were fierce beasts.
\nThis phrase means “a thing that is sweet and delicious to eat.” And it is said as a metaphor for a town or a land that is delightful and abundant. They say, “This or that place, this or that land is tzopelic, ahuiac.”
\nThis phrase means “hair, fingernails, thorn or bramble, beard, eyebrows, chip of a precious stone.” It is said as a metaphor for someone—either a man or a woman—who is noble, wellborn, or of noble lineage: “Ca tetzon, ca teizti, tehuitzyo, tetenzton,”1 et cetera.
\nThis phrase means “someone’s face and ear.” And it is said as a metaphor for the ambassadors who bring delegations from some lords to other lords. And wherever they bring
\n“Ca tetzon, ca teizti, tehuitzyo, tetenzton”: “One’s hair, one’s nails, one’s [maguey] spikes, one’s thorns.”↩
Ipan mjtoaia in aca tlatoanj, anoço pilli, cenca maviztililonj: aiac cenca vel itech acia: iuhqujn tequanj ipan machoia: ic ilviloia in amo tle ipan qujtta tlatoanj. Mach iuhquj aaoaio ipan ticmati tlatoanj, anoço petlatl icpalli: iuhqujn avitzio ipan ticmati, ixpan timoteilvitinemj. Aço muchipa moteilvia: cenca qujtequjpachotinemj in tlatoanj.
\nItechpa mjtoaia in altepetl: in vncan netlamachtilo, pacoa: anoço itechpa mjtoaia in tlatoanj, tepapaqujltianj.
\nInjn tlatolli ipan mjtoaia in tlatocatitlantli, anoço tecutitlantli: in canapa concaoaia tlatocatlatolli: ilhviloia in titlantli. Maço nel ivi in amo vel
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a6962518-4458-452f-95c3-c64566059e24","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 spineless, the thornless\n\n[*Uitzio, auayo*] was said of some ruler, or of a nobleman, of one worthy of great honor. No one could draw very near to him; he was considered as a wild beast. Therefore it was said to one who held a ruler not in esteem: “Is it as if thou thinkest the ruler or authority to be thornless? Dost thou consider him to be spineless as thou goest bringing thy complaints before him? Perhaps the continuous complaints trouble the ruler greatly!”\n\n##### Sweet, fragrant\n\nIt was said of the city in which there was contentment, happiness; or it was said of the ruler who was a provider of happiness.\n\n##### One’s hair, one’s nails, one’s spines, one’s thorns, one’s beard, one’s eyebrows, one’s chip, one’s fragment[^3]\n\nIt means the one born into the lineage of rulership, the status of nobility. And indeed he was also named “one’s blood, one’s color.”\n\n##### One’s eye, one’s ear\n\nThis saying was said of the messenger of the ruler, or of the messenger of a lord, who somewhere delivered the word of the ruler. The messenger was told: “Although the very ruler could not \n\n\n\n\n[^3]: Cf. Dibble and Anderson, *Florentine Codex*, Book X, “The People,” pp. 19–21, 47–9; also Chap. 27, *supra*, n. 7.","html":"[Uitzio, auayo] was said of some ruler, or of a nobleman, of one worthy of great honor. No one could draw very near to him; he was considered as a wild beast. Therefore it was said to one who held a ruler not in esteem: “Is it as if thou thinkest the ruler or authority to be thornless? Dost thou consider him to be spineless as thou goest bringing thy complaints before him? Perhaps the continuous complaints trouble the ruler greatly!”
\nIt was said of the city in which there was contentment, happiness; or it was said of the ruler who was a provider of happiness.
\nIt means the one born into the lineage of rulership, the status of nobility. And indeed he was also named “one’s blood, one’s color.”
\nThis saying was said of the messenger of the ruler, or of the messenger of a lord, who somewhere delivered the word of the ruler. The messenger was told: “Although the very ruler could not
\nCf. Dibble and Anderson, Florentine Codex, Book X, “The People,” pp. 19–21, 47–9; also Chap. 27, supra, n. 7.↩