ha sido electo por señor. Ninguno descortés, malcriado ni deslenguado, ni atrevido en hablar. Ninguno que habla lo que se le viene a la boca ha sido puesto en el trono y estrado real. Y si en algún lugar hay algún senador que dice chocarrerías y palabras de burla, luego le ponían un nombre, tecuhcuecuechtli, que quiere decir "trohán". Nunca a ninguno fue dado algún cargo notable de la república que fuese atrevido o disoluto en hablar o en burlar. Estos tales se llamaban cuacuachictin, que es nombre de hombres alocados, pero valientes en la guerra. También los llamaban a éstos otomi tlaotonxinti,1 que quiere decir "otomi trasquilados y alocados". Éstos eran grandes matadores; pero teníanlos por inhábiles para cosa de regir. Aquellos que regieron los tiempos pasados las repúblicas y los exércitos de las guerras, todos fueron gente muy dados a la oración y devoción, a las lágrimas y suspiros, muy humildes, obedientes, no erguidos
\nAsí en el texto náhuatl. En el texto español parece preceder una o o una u a esta palabra.↩
person has been elected lord. Nobody who is discourteous, impolite, brazen, shameless in speech, or who blurts out the first thing that comes to mind has been placed on the royal seat and throne. And if a senator was heard making jokes and saying mocking words somewhere, they would immediately name him teuccuecuechtli, which means “scoundrel.”1 Never has any important government office been given to anyone who was cheeky or immoral in his speech or in his jokes. People like this were called cuacuachictin, which is a name for men who appear mad but are courageous in battle. They would also call these ones otomih tlaotonxintin, which means “Otomi skinheads who appear mad.” These men were great killers, but they considered them unfit for ruling. All those who ruled republics and warring armies in the past were very much in the habit of prayer and showing devotion, to weeping and sighing; and [they were all] very humble, obedient, not at all haughty
\n“teuccuecuechtli . . . scoundrel”: tecuhcuecuechtli, que quiere decir “trohán.” The Nahuatl text reads teccuecuechtli, rendered in the Spanish column as tecuhcuecuechtli, which Sahagún translates here as trohán (that is, truhan).↩
[y]ciuhcatlacatl, aiac hicicanj, aiac iollocamachal, aiac tlaxcoloanj otecutlatocat, opetlapan oicpalpan catca.
\nAuh intla aca oquenman ittoc tecutlato, in ahavillatoa, in cacamanalti, in tlatlaxcoloa: ocaviltocaiotique, teccuecuechtli: auh in quappetlatl, in ocelopetlatl, aiac oqujpix quauhtlaveliloc, iaotlaveliloc: in quauhtlaveliloque, in iaotlaveliloque: çan omjqujztequjtico, omjtoco quaquachicti, otomj, tlaotonxinti. In oieco petlapan, icpalpan: in oqujpiaco cujtlapilli, in atlapalli, auh in oquauhiacanaco, ȳn oceloiacanaco: iehoantin in chocanj, in tlaocuianj, in mopilovanj, in mopechtecanj, in toloanj, in mocnomatinjme: in mjtoa, vel ca yiollo, tlamatcaioque, ivianioque, iocoxcaioque.
\nAuh ca ticmati, ca moiollo itlan ca, ca çan ce in tlatoanj, in jiollo al[tepetl:]
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\n“And if, at times, a dignitary was seen who spoke in jest, who ridiculed, who was fitful, they gave him the displeasing name of teccuecuechtli;1 and the rulership they entrusted to no one who was a wicked but brave warrior, one furious in battle. The wicked but brave warriors, those furious in battle, those who only came paying the tribute of death, were called *quaquachictin,2 Otomí, *tlaotonxinti.3 Those who came to occupy the rulership, those who came to oversee the vassals, those who came to direct the eagle warriors, the ocelot warriors,4 were the weepers, the sighers, those who humbled themselves, those who inclined themselves, the bowers, those who became meek, those called the secure, the peaceful, the calm, the gentle.
\n“Thou knowest, thou rememberest that there is only one ruler, the heart of
\nIbid.: “le ponjan vn nombre tecucuecuechtli; q̃ qujere dezir trohan… .” The Nahuatl text has teccuecuechtli.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”estos tales se llamauan quaquachictin, q̃ es nõbre de hombres alocados, pero valientes en la guerra… .”↩
Ibid.: “tambien los llamauan a estos otomj o tlaotõxinti, que qujere dezir otomj trasqujlados, y alocados, esto [sic] eran grandes matadores… .”↩
ỹn: the tilde is in the MS.↩