océlotl. Todas estas cosas traían los mercaderes de aquella provincia de Xicalanco para el señor de México.
\nY como volvían y llegaban a México, luego lo presentaban al señor. Desta manera dicha hacían sus viajes los mercaderes de México que llamaban tecuhnenenque, yendo a aquella tierra de Anáhuac, que está cercada de enemigos de los mexicanos. El señor de México quería mucho a estos mercaderes. Teníalos como a hijos, como a personas nobles y muy avisadas y esforzadas.
\nLa razón porque cierta parte de los mercaderes se llamó nahualoztomécah es que antes que se conquistase la provincia de Tzinacantla, los mercaderes mexicanos entraban a tratar en aquella provincia disimulados, tomaban
\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":"c60577e4-c048-405c-983d-95ba0b5a0174","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":"ocelotl_. The merchants of that province of Xicalanco would bring all these things for the lord of Mexico.\n\nAnd as soon as they returned, upon arriving in Mexico, they would immediately present all these things to the lord. And in this way described [above], the merchants of Mexico called _tecuhnenenque_ would embark on their journeys, traveling to that land of Anahuac, which is surrounded by the Mexicans’ enemies. The lord of Mexico loved these merchants very much. He considered them as his sons and as noble people who were both very smart and very brave.\n\n#### Fifth chapter: On how the merchants came to be called _nahualoztomecah_\n\nThe reason why a certain group of merchants came to be called _nahualoztomecah_ is because, before the province of Tzinacantlan[^33] had been conquered, the Mexican merchants would disguise themselves when they went to that province to do business: \n\n\n[^33]: Tzinacantlan: Tzinacantla in LAGQ.","html":"ocelotl_. The merchants of that province of Xicalanco would bring all these things for the lord of Mexico.
\nAnd as soon as they returned, upon arriving in Mexico, they would immediately present all these things to the lord. And in this way described [above], the merchants of Mexico called tecuhnenenque would embark on their journeys, traveling to that land of Anahuac, which is surrounded by the Mexicans’ enemies. The lord of Mexico loved these merchants very much. He considered them as his sons and as noble people who were both very smart and very brave.
\nThe reason why a certain group of merchants came to be called nahualoztomecah is because, before the province of Tzinacantlan1 had been conquered, the Mexican merchants would disguise themselves when they went to that province to do business:
\nTzinacantlan: Tzinacantla in LAGQ.↩
in tlatlauhqui ocelotl. O isquich in, in ompa concuia puchteca, in oztomeca: in ompa Xicalanco in quioalitquia, in itech pouia Auitzotzin.
\nAuh in oacico nican mexico niman ie ispan quitequilia in Auitzotzin: in isquich oquicuito in oztomeca. O iui in, in tecunenemia inic quiueilique in altepetl, in mexicaiotl ipampa ca nouian tzacuticatca in anaoacatlalli. Auh ipampa in cēca quintlaçotlaia in Auitzotzin: uel iuhquinma no ipilhoan quinchioaia, çan no quinneneuiliaia, in iuhque pipilti: çan no iuhque in puchteca inic mimatini inic tlanemiliani
\nAuh izcatqui in omoteneuh, inic mitoa naoaloztomeca: in icoac calacque in tzinacantlan in puchteca, in aiamo peoalo tzinacantecatl, inic calaquia amo necia in aço mexica: inic mispoloaia, quinmopatillotiaia, in iuh moxima tzinacantlan tlaca:
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"7d5dbbb5-92ec-47c8-88cb-8d55ebc0fa62","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":"the black ocelot. All this which the merchants [and] vanguard merchants took there in Xicalanco [and] carried away belonged to Auitzotzin.\n\nAnd when they came to arrive here in Mexico, then the vanguard merchants placed before Auitzotzin all that which they had gone to get. In this manner traveled the reconnoiterers who exalted the city and the Mexican state; because indeed everywhere they were surrounded by the lands of Anauac. And for that reason Auitzotzin valued them highly. Indeed, he made them like his sons; their very equals he made them. As were noblemen, so also were the merchants, capable and enterprising.\n\n\n#### Fifth Chapter, which telleth how the merchants were given the name of disguised merchants.\n\nAnd behold, [as to] those known as [and] hence called disguised merchants: when the merchants went into Tzinacantlan before the people of Tzinacantlan had been conquered, to enter so that they did not look like Mexicans, in order to disguise themselves, they took on the appearance of the [natives]. As was the manner of cutting the hair of the people of Tzinacantlan,","html":"the black ocelot. All this which the merchants [and] vanguard merchants took there in Xicalanco [and] carried away belonged to Auitzotzin.
\nAnd when they came to arrive here in Mexico, then the vanguard merchants placed before Auitzotzin all that which they had gone to get. In this manner traveled the reconnoiterers who exalted the city and the Mexican state; because indeed everywhere they were surrounded by the lands of Anauac. And for that reason Auitzotzin valued them highly. Indeed, he made them like his sons; their very equals he made them. As were noblemen, so also were the merchants, capable and enterprising.
\nAnd behold, [as to] those known as [and] hence called disguised merchants: when the merchants went into Tzinacantlan before the people of Tzinacantlan had been conquered, to enter so that they did not look like Mexicans, in order to disguise themselves, they took on the appearance of the [natives]. As was the manner of cutting the hair of the people of Tzinacantlan,
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