Otra sala del palacio se llamaba petlacalco. En este lugar posaba un mayordomo del señor que tenía cargo y cuenta de todas las troxes de los mantenimientos de maíz que se guardaban para proveimiento de la ciudad y república, que cabían a cada [una] dos mil hanegas de maíz, en las cuales había maíz de veinte años, sin dañarse. También había otras troxes en que se guardaba mucha cantidad de frisoles. Había también otras troxes en que se guardaban todos los géneros de bledos y semillas que se llaman chía y huauhtli y chiantzótzol. Había otras troxes en que se guardaban la sal gruesa por moler, que la traían por tributo de tierra caliente. También había otras troxes en que se guardaban fardos de chile y pepitas de calabazas de dos géneros, unas medianas y otras mayores que se llaman cuauhayohuachtli. En estas alhóndigas estaba también la cárcel de aquellos que hacían algunos delictos por los cuales no merecían la muerte.
\nOtra sala se llamaba calpixcalli, o por otro nombre texancalli. En este lugar se juntaban todos los mayordomos del señor trayendo cada uno la cuenta de los tributos que tenía a su cargo, para dar cuenta y razón dellos al señor cuando se lo pidiese. Y ansí
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\nAnother hall was called Calpixcacalli or, by other name, Texancalli. All the lord’s stewards would gather in this place, and each one would keep count of the tributes that he was in charge of, so as to give the count and an account of these to the lord whenever he should ask for them. And so
\nteixpan, injc mjctilo, injc maujztli qujteca tlatoanj.
\nPetlacalco, vncan mopiaia, in jxqujch qualonj, in tlaolli, injc mopiaia quauhquezcomatl, amo çan macuiltzontli, vncatca tlaolli: cempoalxiuhcaiotl, in jtetzon altepetl, ioan quauhcuezcontica mamanca in etl, in chian, in oauhtli, in chiantzotzol, iztacomjtl, iztaxalli, chilpetlatl, aiooachpetlatl, quauhaiooachtli: ioan vncan mopiaia in teilpilcalli, quauhcalli, in vncan qujmjlpiaia, qujncaltzaquaia tlatlacoanj.
\nCalpixcalli, texancalli, vncã cenqujçaia: in jxqujch calpixquj, ioan tequjtquj, vncan tecpanoaia injc [quitlatolchixticatca tlatoani, aço tlein quinequiz, aço] tlein qujtemoz qujcencauhti[catca,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"a4ba9278-6f5d-4e09-b70c-7b30ca2acb81","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":"so that they were slain. Thus the ruler implanted fear.[^11]\n\n##### Fifth paragraph, where is told how they stored all the food.\n\nPetlacalco: there was stored all the food. Dried maize grains thus were kept in wooden grain bins; more than two thousand [measures of] grains of dried maize—a store of twenty years for the city. And in wooden storage bins were dried beans, chía, amaranth seeds, wrinkled chía, salt jars, coarse salt, baskets of chills, baskets of squash seeds, and large squash seeds. And there was kept the jail, the wooden cage,[^12] where they imprisoned and confined evildoers.\n\n##### Sixth paragraph, in which is described the house of the majordomos and stewards.\n\nCalpixcalli[^13] or Texancalli: there assembled all the majordomos and tribute gatherers. There they were lodged [to await the command of the ruler, (lest) he require something, or] to bring down \n\n\n\n\n[^11]: At the end of this paragraph, the *Real Academia de la Historia MS* contains an account of the Calmecac, which is lacking in the *Florentine Codex*. (See Appendix A.)\n\n\n[^12]: *Teilpilcalli, quauhcalli*: Orozco y Berra, *op. cit*., I, pp. 268–269, writes: *”Las prisiones eran de dos especies. La llamada teilpiloyan, lugar de presos, en que estaban detenidos los delincuentes de penas leves; el cuauhcalli, casa de madera, especie de jaula fuerte de vigas, en que se guardaba los condenados á la muerte y prisioneros de guerra destinados al sacrificio.”*\n\n\n[^13]: In the *Real Academia de la Historia MS*, three passages appear which are not in the *Florentine Codex*. Because they change the sense to a degree, they are here inserted in brackets.","html":"so that they were slain. Thus the ruler implanted fear.1
\nPetlacalco: there was stored all the food. Dried maize grains thus were kept in wooden grain bins; more than two thousand [measures of] grains of dried maize—a store of twenty years for the city. And in wooden storage bins were dried beans, chía, amaranth seeds, wrinkled chía, salt jars, coarse salt, baskets of chills, baskets of squash seeds, and large squash seeds. And there was kept the jail, the wooden cage,2 where they imprisoned and confined evildoers.
\nCalpixcalli3 or Texancalli: there assembled all the majordomos and tribute gatherers. There they were lodged [to await the command of the ruler, (lest) he require something, or] to bring down
\nAt the end of this paragraph, the Real Academia de la Historia MS contains an account of the Calmecac, which is lacking in the Florentine Codex. (See Appendix A.)↩
Teilpilcalli, quauhcalli: Orozco y Berra, op. cit., I, pp. 268–269, writes: ”Las prisiones eran de dos especies. La llamada teilpiloyan, lugar de presos, en que estaban detenidos los delincuentes de penas leves; el cuauhcalli, casa de madera, especie de jaula fuerte de vigas, en que se guardaba los condenados á la muerte y prisioneros de guerra destinados al sacrificio.”↩
In the Real Academia de la Historia MS, three passages appear which are not in the Florentine Codex. Because they change the sense to a degree, they are here inserted in brackets.↩