vuestra compañía, porque sepa los caminos de los páramos y de los montes, donde se gana fama y honra, y donde se halla la esperiencia y el saber, que allá se deprenden los trabajos y fatigas; allá se hará hombre y avisado en vuestra compañía, o muérase. ¿Qué ha de hacer, o qué le tengo yo de hacer aquí en casa? ¿Es por ventura mujer que le tengo de enseñal a hilar y a texer en casa? Vaya a donde sea hombre."
\nY el padre y la madre del mancebo hablaba a su hijo desta manera: "Aquí estás, muy amado hijo nuestro. Estás angustiado porque te enviamos lexos tierra; pero mira que para eso te ha hecho Dios nuestro señor, para que trabaxes como hombre y no estés ocioso en casa. Vete en paz con aquellos con quien te enviamos, y deprende dellos cómo andan por los caminos, y de la manera que tratan, y cómo se ponen las escudillas y chiquihuites delante de los que comen, y cómo se da aguamanos. Y mira bien la orden del servicio que se hace cuando se sientan a comer, y cómo se ordena la comida."
\nY cuando ya se quieren partir para ir su camino, primero se juntan todos en la casa del mayoral que va por capitán; también allí se juntan todas las cargas de sus mercaderías y las
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\nAnd the young man’s father and mother would speak to their son in this way: “Here you are, our very beloved son. You are distressed because we are sending you to distant lands, but understand that this is why our lord god has made you: so that you may work like a man and not remain idle at home. Go in peace with those with whom we are sending you, and learn from them how to walk the roads, how they trade, how bowls and chiquihuites1 are set before the ones who are eating, and how to serve water for hand washing. And pay careful attention to the order of the service that is performed when they sit down to eat and how the food is arranged.”
\nAnd when they are ready to go on their way, first they all assemble in the house of the foreman who will be going as their captain. All the loads with their wares are also gathered there,
\nchiquihuites: plural Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word chiquihuitl (basket).↩
in tocaiecan: ca ompa mani in tezcatl, ca ompa hicac in tlauilli in ocotl: ca ompa ca in atl cecec, in tzitzicaztli: aço õpa tepallachiez, mozcaliz, tlacaquiz ma ompa popoliui, tle nellaiz, tle nicchioaz, cuis cihoatl aço malacatl tzotzopaztli imac nictequiliz.
\nAuh in iehoatl tetatzin tenantzin: çan iscoian in quitlatlauhtia in ipiltzin: quilhuia. Ca nican tica nopiltze, notelpuchtze, nocenteconetzine: timotolinia, tlê nel taiz, tle ticchioaz, ca oic mitzmochiuili, in tlacatl totecuio, in tloque, naoaque, in tlalticpaque, inic toquichtli: ma iuian xonmoteuiquilitiuh, ma tetech xoconitztiuh in iuh huiloa, in iuh ôtlatoco: auh in iuh teispan manalo in mulcaxitl, in chiquiuitl, in iuh teamaco: uel ximotlachielti, in catlehoatl achtopa mocui, inic teispan nequetzalo: uel xicmottili in iuh tlatecpano.
\nAuh in icoac in ie iazque, in ie ompeoazque: achtopa ichan monechicoa, in aqujn teiacanaz, in tachcauhchiuhtiaz: mochi oncan mocennechicooa, in isquich tlamamalli, in tiamictli, ioan in is[quich]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"3ea7ed25-d341-426d-affb-d2dc808e2277","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":"of renown. For there is the good example;[^25] there is castigation. There, perhaps, with their help, he will become prudent, mature, understanding. May he not perish there. What, in truth, will be done? What shall I make of him? Is he perchance a woman? Shall I place, perchance, a spindle, a batten, in his hand?”\n\nAnd this mother [and] father quite on their own account besought their son. They said to him: “Here thou art, O my son, my beloved youth, my only child. Thou art unfortunate. What in truth shall we do? What shall we make of thee? For this reason did the master, the lord, the protector of all, the master of the earth, create thee, that thou shouldst be a man. Accompany them carefully. Imitate them as they go, as they travel, and when the sauce dish [and] carrying basket are placed before one, [and] drink is offered one. Pay good heed which one is given first place as places are taken before the people; look well how things are arranged.”\n\nAnd when they were about to go, when they were about to start, first, in the house of the one who would lead, who would go as leader of the youths, everything was there assembled; all the loads of merchandise, \n\n\n\n\n[^25]: Cf. *Florentine Codex*, Book VI, fol. 204*r*.","html":"of renown. For there is the good example;1 there is castigation. There, perhaps, with their help, he will become prudent, mature, understanding. May he not perish there. What, in truth, will be done? What shall I make of him? Is he perchance a woman? Shall I place, perchance, a spindle, a batten, in his hand?”
\nAnd this mother [and] father quite on their own account besought their son. They said to him: “Here thou art, O my son, my beloved youth, my only child. Thou art unfortunate. What in truth shall we do? What shall we make of thee? For this reason did the master, the lord, the protector of all, the master of the earth, create thee, that thou shouldst be a man. Accompany them carefully. Imitate them as they go, as they travel, and when the sauce dish [and] carrying basket are placed before one, [and] drink is offered one. Pay good heed which one is given first place as places are taken before the people; look well how things are arranged.”
\nAnd when they were about to go, when they were about to start, first, in the house of the one who would lead, who would go as leader of the youths, everything was there assembled; all the loads of merchandise,
\nCf. Florentine Codex, Book VI, fol. 204r.↩