ni presumptuosos, muy cuerdos y prudentes, muy pacíficos y reposados.
\nYa sabes, hijo mío, bien tienes en la memoria que el señor es como corazón del pueblo. A éste le ayudaban dos senadores para lo que toca al regimiento del pueblo: uno dellos era pilli y otro era criado en las guerras. El uno dellos se llamaba tlacatecuhtli y el otro tlacochtecuhtli. Otros dos capitanes ayudaban al señor para en las cosas de la milicia: el uno dellos era pilli, [y el otro] criado en la guerra, aunque no era pilli;1 el uno dellos se llamaba tlacatéccatl, y el otro se llamaba tlacochcálcatl. Desta manera, hijo mío, va el regimiento de la república. Y estos cuatro ya dichos, tlacatecuhtli y tlacochtecuhtli y tlacatéccatl y tlacochcálcatl, no tenían estos nombres y estos oficios por heredad o propiedad, sino que eran electos por la inspiración de nuestro señor, porque eran más hábiles para ellos.
\nNota bien lo que te digo, muy amado hijo mío,
\nSe trata de salvar con las palabras entre corchetes la incongruencia del texto. Al parecer esta incongruencia fue corregida, si se juzga por las huellas de una tira de papel que fue sobrepuesta y que se desprendió.↩
or presumptuous, very sane and prudent, very peaceful and calm.
\nNow you know, my son, you will always remember well that the lord is like the people’s heart. Two senators would assist him in what pertains to governing the people: one of them was a pilli, and the other was someone trained in warfare. One of them was called tlacateuctli, and the other, tlacochteuctli. Two other captains would help the lord in military matters: one of them was a pilli, and the other was someone trained in warfare, even though he was not a pilli.1 One of them was called tlacateccatl, and the other was called tlacochcalcatl. This is the way, my son, the republic is ruled. And these four men already mentioned—the tlacateuctli, tlacochteuctli, tlacateccatl, and tlacochcalcatl—would not acquire these titles and offices by inheriting them or through an entitlement, but they were elected through our lord’s inspiration, because they were the most skillful for them.
\nTake good note of what I am telling you, my very beloved son,
\nThe text here is somewhat truncated, and in the manuscript, there is a paper strip glued over the page, substituting some lines that were cut out, in an attempt to correct a mistake. See the note at LAGQ 2:568.↩
[al]tepetl: auh ca ie vme in tecutlato, ce quappan, ce pilpan: ce quappan, tlacatecutli, tlacochtecutli, auh ce pilli: auh in quauhtlato, no ce quappan tlacateccatl, tlacochcalcatl, no ce pilli. Auh ca ivi y, tlavica in totecujo, in tlaotlatoctia: auh in quappa tlacatecutli, tlacochtecuth, tlacateccatl, tlacochcalcatl: cujx njman ipan iol, ipan tlacat? cujx noc inan, yta qujcavilitia, ca amo: ca çan motepepenja, tlalticpac motechichivilia, moteimachilia, in jpalnemoanj.
\nIyo nopiltze, nopiltze: ma quen muchiuh in moiollo, ma quen timuchiuh, at ça nen o, itla vel timahailiz: at noc itla mjtzpoaz in jpalnemoanj: auh acanoço can tonpouhtiaz in tlalticpac: ma quen ticchiuh in moiollo, ma mjtic titlato ma timonelchiuh,
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