[ore]ja, que parecieses muchacha. Y más te valdría murir que acontecerte esto." Y el mancebo que aún teniendo la bedixa en el cogote y va a la guerra dos o tres veces, cuando volvía sin captivar por sí ni en compañía, llamábanle por afrenta cuexpalchicácpul, que quiere decir "bellaco que tiene bedixa en el cogote", que no ha sido para nada en las veces que ha ido a la guerra. Y esto era grande afrenta para el tal. Y con esto se esforzaba a arrojarse contra sus enemigos, para siquiera en compañía captivar a alguno. Y cuando estos tales en compañía de otros captivaban, quitábanles la bedixa y echábanle un casquete de pluma apegado a la cabeza. Y los que no captivaban ni en compañía ni de otra manera, no los quitaban la bedixa ni les echaban casquete de pluma, sino hacíanlos una corona en medio de la cabeza, que era suma afrenta. Y si éste y quien hicieron la corona por afrenta tenía qué comer, tenía maizales o otra hacienda, vivía de su hacienda y no curaba de la guerra, sino quitábase la bedixa. Este tal no le era lícito traer manta de algodón, ni mastle de algodón, sino manta de ichtli, y mastle de ichtli, sin ningún labor. Esto era señal de villano.
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\n“Villain”: villano (a common man); Nahuatl macehualli.↩
[mo]potonia, auh in aquin çan niman amo tepallama, amo uel mocuespallaça amono mopotonia, inic moxima moquaiaoalxima çaniio in icoanepantla quichichiqui. Auh ini aço ie imaceoalti in tlalticpacaiotl, in necuiltonolli, auh anoço çan motolinia auh in omocuespallaz aic tle quicui, aic tle itech quitlalia tlamacho tilmatli çan oc ce in iztac in ichtilmaton iztac in imastlaton,
\nauh ī aquin uel oquimiscaui otlama in oce cacic ic motocaiotia telpochiiaqui tlamani. Auh in iquac y quinicoac ispan quiuica in motecoçoma in umpa tlatocãn. Auh itencopa inic motecuçauhtiltia mistlapalhoatzalhuia quicemaquia in ixaiac, auh in icanaoacan quitecozauhuia in icalpiscahoan motecuçoma.
\nAuh quinicoac quitlauhtia in motecuçoma in quimaca camopaltenoaoanqui ioan centetl colotlalpilli ioan centetl nochpalmastlatl iacauiac ioan centetl centzonmastlatl tlatlapalli, auh icoac compeoaltia in tlacuiloltilmatli quiquemi.
\nAuh inic ome caci çan no vmpa quiuica in ispan motecuçoma in tlatocan auh çan no iuhquj
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\nAnd he who had acted indeed alone and had taken captives, if he took one, was therefore named a leading youth and a captor. And when this came to pass, then they took him before Moctezuma, there at the palace. And by his command he was then stained with yellow ochre; his face was colored with red ochre. They applied it to all of his face. And the majordomos of Moctezuma anointed his temples with yellow ochre.1
\nAnd at that time Moctezuma granted him favors; he gave him an orange cape with a striped border and a scorpion design to bind on, and a carmine colored breech clout with long ends, and a breech clout of many colors.2 And then he began to wear capes with designs.
\nAnd when he had taken two, likewise they took him there before Moctezuma, at the palace, and likewise
\nFollowing quitecozauhuia, the Real Academia de la Historia MS has yuan ompa quimpotonia—and there they pasted feathers on their heads. This passage is missing in the Florentine Codex.↩
The corresponding Spanish text reads: ”vna manta con vnas listas labradas de color morado: y otra manta labrada, de otros ciertos labores de colorado que se llamaua colotlapalli: y … vn mastle labrado de colorado, largo que estuujese bien colgado, y otro mastle labrado de todas colores.”↩