la embaxada hácenles la misma honra que harían al mismo señor, y dícenle: Ca ix, ca inácaz.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Retrato y imagen de alguno." Y por metáfora quiere decir el que succedió a otro en el oficio o el que en nombre de otro hace algo, o el embaxador que va con embaxada, o el hijo que succedió en el oficio a su padre, y en las costumbres.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Carga que se ha de llevar a cuestas." Y por metáfora quiere decir la república que se ha de regir, como quien los lleva a cuestas.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Salió de las entrañas y de la garganta." Y por metáfora quiere decir: "Persona generosa que viene de personas ilustres." Quiere decir también la plática o oración que hace el orador, que sale de las entrañas y de la garganta.
\nEsta letra quiere decir: "Su resuello o espíritu, o su palabra." Y dícese por metáfora del razonamiento que hace el señor a sus principales o el predicador a sus oyentes.
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\nThis phrase means “someone’s portrait and image.” And as a metaphor, it means someone who succeeded another in office; or someone who does something in someone else’s name; or an ambassador who travels with a delegation; or a son who succeeded his father in his office and in his customs.
\nThis phrase means “the burden that has to be carried on one’s back.” And as a metaphor, it means the republic that has to be ruled like someone who carries [the people] on his back.
\nThis phrase means, “He came forth from the innermost parts and the throat.” And as a metaphor, it means “a wellborn person who comes from illustrious people.” It also means the speech or oration that an orator delivers, which comes forth from his innermost parts and throat.
\nThis phrase means “his breath or spirit or his word.” And it is said as a metaphor for the speech that the lord gives to his nobles, or the preacher to his listeners.
\n“Ca ix, ca inacaz”: “For you are his eyes, his nose.”↩
iehoatl ovalla tlatoanj: ca in tehoatl otioalla, ca tix, ca tinacaz, ca titlacaccauh in tlatoanj, ca titlachixcauh
\nInjn tlatolli: itechpa mjtoaia in tlatocatitlantli: anoço in jpiltzin tlatoanj, in omjc itatzin: ca oqujmjxiptlatiteoac in jpiltzin, ca ipatillo muchiuhtica.
\nInjn tlatolli intechpa mjtoaia in maceoalti, in pacholonj, in iacanalonj: mjtoaia: cuexanalo, itco, mamalo, iacanalo, pacholo, temamalvazco ietiuh in maceoalli: amo monomaiacana.
\nInjn tlatolli itechpa mjtoaia yn aqujn itech oqujz tlatocatlacamecaiotl
\nInjn tlatolli, vel itech mjtoaia in tlatoque intlatol: mjtoaia. Ihijotzin, itlatoltzin in tlatoanj, aiac ytlatol, vel totecujo itlatoltzin, ihijotzin.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"4b31d637-0868-49e8-81ad-773888eaa4c0","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":"come, it is thou who comest, thou who art the eye, the ear, the listener for the ruler, thou who art his spy.”\n\n##### One’s deputy, one’s vicar\n\nThis saying was said of the messenger of the ruler, or of the son of the ruler when his father died, for he had departed deputizing his son, who was acting as his vicar.\n\n##### That which can be carried, that which can be shouldered, that which goeth on one’s lap, in the cradle of the arms\n\nThis saying was said of the common folk, the governable, the leadable. It was said: “The common folk, who cannot lead themselves, are put on one’s lap, are borne, are shouldered, are led, are governed; they go in the cradle of one’s arms.”\n\n##### He hath come forth from one’s womb, from one’s throat[^4]\n\nThis saying was said of him who issued from the lineage of the rulers.\n\n##### His breath, his word\n\nPrecisely this saying was said of the words of the rulers. It was said: “The breath, the word of the ruler”; not [just] anyone’s word; precisely the word, the breath of our lord.\n\n\n\n\n[^4]: In “Huehuetlatolli,” pp. 45, 50, Garibay, for these terms, paired *seno* with *regazo* or *útero*;* entrañas* with *garganta*.","html":"come, it is thou who comest, thou who art the eye, the ear, the listener for the ruler, thou who art his spy.”
\nThis saying was said of the messenger of the ruler, or of the son of the ruler when his father died, for he had departed deputizing his son, who was acting as his vicar.
\nThis saying was said of the common folk, the governable, the leadable. It was said: “The common folk, who cannot lead themselves, are put on one’s lap, are borne, are shouldered, are led, are governed; they go in the cradle of one’s arms.”
\nThis saying was said of him who issued from the lineage of the rulers.
\nPrecisely this saying was said of the words of the rulers. It was said: “The breath, the word of the ruler”; not [just] anyone’s word; precisely the word, the breath of our lord.
\nIn “Huehuetlatolli,” pp. 45, 50, Garibay, for these terms, paired seno with regazo or útero;* entrañas* with garganta.↩