Tenían los señores sus exercicios de pasatiempos. El primero era juego de pelota de viento, o semejante a la de viento. Era este exercicio muy usado entre los señores y principales. Tenían un juego de pelota edificado para sólo aquel exercicio: eran dos paredes tan altas como dos estados, distante la una de la otra como de veinte pies. Estaba enmedio de cada una destas paredes una rueda como piedra de molino pequeña que tenía un agujero en el medio, que pudía caber justamente la pelota con que jugaban por él. Estaban tan altas como un estado del suelo. Igualmente distaban de los
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"d1b171ad-cda3-4c36-9b44-4a5b6dd23670","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"##### Fifth paragraph: On the games that the lord enjoyed\n\nThe lords had their own regular exercises.[^80] The first [of these] was an air-ball game, or similar to the air ball.[^81] This exercise was very common among the lords and the nobles. They would build a ball court exclusively for that exercise: it consisted of two walls that were as high as twenty-two feet[^82] and about twenty feet apart from each other. In the middle of each one of these walls was a wheel like a small millstone with a hole in the middle, just large enough for the game ball to pass through. These [wheels] were placed about eleven feet[^83] above the ground and were the same distance \n\n\n[^80]: “Their own regular exercises”: _sus exercicios de pasatiempos_.\n\n[^81]: “Air-ball game . . . ball”: _juego de pelota de viento, o semejante a la de viento_. Sahagún makes an analogy between the rubber ball of Mexico and the European air-inflated ball. His intent was surely to compare two games organized around bouncing balls.\n\n[^82]: “Twenty-two feet”: _dos estados_. One _estado_ or _estadal_ measured 10.97 feet_. See n32 above.\n\n[^83]: “Eleven feet”: _un estado_.","html":"The lords had their own regular exercises.1 The first [of these] was an air-ball game, or similar to the air ball.2 This exercise was very common among the lords and the nobles. They would build a ball court exclusively for that exercise: it consisted of two walls that were as high as twenty-two feet3 and about twenty feet apart from each other. In the middle of each one of these walls was a wheel like a small millstone with a hole in the middle, just large enough for the game ball to pass through. These [wheels] were placed about eleven feet4 above the ground and were the same distance
\n“Their own regular exercises”: sus exercicios de pasatiempos.↩
“Air-ball game . . . ball”: juego de pelota de viento, o semejante a la de viento. Sahagún makes an analogy between the rubber ball of Mexico and the European air-inflated ball. His intent was surely to compare two games organized around bouncing balls.↩
“Twenty-two feet”: dos estados. One estado or estadal measured 10.97 feet_. See n32 above.↩
“Eleven feet”: un estado.↩
In tlatoanj in jcoac qujttaia, qujmatia ca cenca nentlamati in cujtlapilli, atlapalli maceoalli: njman tlanaoatiaia, injc ollamaloz, injc teellaquaoaia, injc tepaqujltiaia tlatoanj: qujnnaoatiaia in calpixque, injc qujoalcujzque in olli, ioan nelpilonj, ioan queçeoatl, ioan maieoatl: injc mocencaoa injc mochichioa, in jollancaoan tlatoanj, ioan tlacencaoalo in tlachco, tlaaujlilo, tlaxalujlo, tlachpano:
\nioan in jxqujch qujtlanjtoz tlatoanj, in tlaçotilmatli in xomoiujtilmatli, in tlaçomaxtlatl, in chalchiuhtentetl, teucujtlanacochtli, chalchiuhcozcatl, teucujtlacozcatl, matzopetztli chalchiujtl vei ipan ca, tlaçotl: ioan in ixqujch tlaçotilmatli, ioan pepechtli qujoalqujxtia in calpixque, qujoallalia in tlachco. Auh in
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"d2a390d9-89ca-46c3-b911-48a3341ec46e","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":"##### Fifth paragraph, in which is told how the ruler was amused.\n\nThe ruler, when he beheld and knew that the common folk and vassals were very fretful, then commanded that the ball game be played, in order to animate the people and divert them. He commanded the majordomos to take out the rubber ball, and the girdles, and the leather hip guards, and the leather gloves with which the ruler’s ball players were dressed and arrayed. And things were arranged on the ball court; there was sprinkling, there was sanding, there was sweeping.\n\nAnd all which the ruler was to wager in the game—the valued capes, the duck feather capes, the costly breech clouts, the green stone lip plugs, the golden ear plugs, the green stone necklaces, the golden necklaces, the wrist bands with large, precious,[^14] green stones upon them, and all the precious capes and bedding—the majordomos brought out and placed in the ball court. And \n\n\n\n\n[^14]: *Tlaçotl*: the corresponding Spanish text refers to slaves, in which case the Aztec should read *tlacotl*.","html":"The ruler, when he beheld and knew that the common folk and vassals were very fretful, then commanded that the ball game be played, in order to animate the people and divert them. He commanded the majordomos to take out the rubber ball, and the girdles, and the leather hip guards, and the leather gloves with which the ruler’s ball players were dressed and arrayed. And things were arranged on the ball court; there was sprinkling, there was sanding, there was sweeping.
\nAnd all which the ruler was to wager in the game—the valued capes, the duck feather capes, the costly breech clouts, the green stone lip plugs, the golden ear plugs, the green stone necklaces, the golden necklaces, the wrist bands with large, precious,1 green stones upon them, and all the precious capes and bedding—the majordomos brought out and placed in the ball court. And
\nTlaçotl: the corresponding Spanish text refers to slaves, in which case the Aztec should read tlacotl.↩