brevedad y súpitamente somos nombrados para las dignidades. Pero ignoro el camino par donde tengo de ir. No sé lo que tengo de hacer. ¡Plégaos de no me asconder la lumbre y el espejo que me ha de guiar! No permitáis, señor, que yo descamine y eche por las montañas y por los riscos a los que tengo de regir y llevar a cuestas. No permitáis, señor, que los guíe por caminos de conejos y de venados. No permitáis, señor, que se levante alguna guerra contra mí. No permitáis que venga alguna pestilencia sobre los que tengo de regir, porque no sabré lo que en tal caso tengo de hacer, ni por dónde tengo de guiar a los que llevo a cuestas.
\n¡Oh, desventurado de mí, que soy inhábil y ignorante! No querría que veniese sobre mí alguna enfermedad, porque en este caso era echar a perder vuestro pueblo y vuestra gente, y desolar y poner en tinieblas vuestro reino. ¿Qué haré, señor y criador, si por ventura cayere en algún pecado carnal y deshonroso, y ansí echare a perder el reino? ¿Qué haré si por negligencia o por pereza echare a perder ni1 súbdictos? ¿Qué haré si desbarrancare o despeñare por mi culpa a los que tengo
\nDebe decir "mis".↩
We are assigned to these positions suddenly and on short notice. But I do not know the road that I have to take. I do not know what I have to do. Please do not hide from me the light and the mirror that will guide me! Do not allow me, lord, to misguide and sidetrack into the mountains and the crags those whom I have to rule and carry on my back. Do not allow me, lord, to lead them along the roads that belong to the rabbits and deer. Do not allow, lord, any war to be launched against me. Do not allow any plague to come upon those whom I have to rule, because, in that case, I will know neither what I have to do nor where I have to guide those whom I carry on my back.
\n“Oh, unfortunate me, for I am unqualified and ignorant! I would not wish for an illness to strike me, because such a thing would cause your own town and people to become ruined and desolate, and your kingdom to be covered in darkness. What shall I do, lord and creator, if by chance I should fall into some dishonorable sin of the flesh and thus ruin the kingdom? What am I to do if, because of my negligence or laziness, I should ruin my subjects? What am I to do if, through my own fault, I should cast down into the chasm and throw off the cliff those whom I have
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\nquen nen, quen njcnochiviliz, campa njcnoviqujliz, campa njccalaqujz in tlatqujtl, in tlamamalli: omuchiuh onotlaueliltic, quen vel nehoapul in anjnozcalia, in anjnjmati:
\nauh ma nopanti ma cocoliztli nopan moman: quen mach nenti, in ie inencauhian ticmuchivilia in titloque, tinaoaque, quen mach nenti in ie cactimanj, in ie iooatimanj in matzin, in motepetzin: Auh quē mach nenti in onopan ooalla in teuhtli, in tlaçulli, quen mach
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0d6b9f27-25da-47c0-8782-c66f61866862","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 road I shall follow? What way shall I make? Do not conceal, do not hide the mirror, the torch, the light. May I not carry things into dangerous places. May I not direct, introduce the governed into the forest, to the cliff. May I not cause one to encounter, to see the way of the rabbit, of the deer.[^6] And may something [evil] not move upon me; may warfare not move, unfold upon me. May hunger, may famine not befall me.\n\n“To what purpose, in what manner shall I deal with the governed? Where shall I take them? Where shall I introduce them? Wretched have I become. What can I [do], I who am untrained, ignorant?\n\n“And may sickness not unfold upon me, not spread upon me. What will result when already thou, lord of the near, of the nigh, makest thy city a place of desolation?[^7] What will result when already it lieth abandoned, lieth darkened? And what will result when filth, when vice have come upon me? What will \n\n\n\n\n[^6]: *ma tochin maçatl yiovi njcnamjcti njqujttiti:* cf. Chap. 43; also Olmos, *op. cit*., pp. 216–17.\n\n\n[^7]: The corresponding Spanish text differs somewhat: *”no permjtays señor, que se leuante alguna guerra contra mj, no permitays que venga alguna pestilencia, sobre los que tengo de regir, porque no sabre lo que en tal caso tengo de hazer, nj por donde tengo de guiar, a los que lleuo a cuestas… .”*","html":"the road I shall follow? What way shall I make? Do not conceal, do not hide the mirror, the torch, the light. May I not carry things into dangerous places. May I not direct, introduce the governed into the forest, to the cliff. May I not cause one to encounter, to see the way of the rabbit, of the deer.1 And may something [evil] not move upon me; may warfare not move, unfold upon me. May hunger, may famine not befall me.
\n“To what purpose, in what manner shall I deal with the governed? Where shall I take them? Where shall I introduce them? Wretched have I become. What can I [do], I who am untrained, ignorant?
\n“And may sickness not unfold upon me, not spread upon me. What will result when already thou, lord of the near, of the nigh, makest thy city a place of desolation?2 What will result when already it lieth abandoned, lieth darkened? And what will result when filth, when vice have come upon me? What will
\nma tochin maçatl yiovi njcnamjcti njqujttiti: cf. Chap. 43; also Olmos, op. cit., pp. 216–17.↩
The corresponding Spanish text differs somewhat: ”no permjtays señor, que se leuante alguna guerra contra mj, no permitays que venga alguna pestilencia, sobre los que tengo de regir, porque no sabre lo que en tal caso tengo de hazer, nj por donde tengo de guiar, a los que lleuo a cuestas… .”↩