destos aderezos en las grandes fiestas. También los señores que regían los mercaderes tenían cuidado de regir el tiánquiz, y todos los que en él compraban y vendían, para que ninguno agraviase a otro ni injuriase a otro. Y a los que delinquían en el tiánquez ellos los castigaban, y ponían los precios de todas las cosas que se vendían.
\nY cuando alguna vez el señor de México mandaba a los mercaderes y disimulados esploradores que fuesen a alguna provincia, si allá los prendían o mataban sin dar buena respuesta o buen recibimiento a los que iban como mensajeros del señor de México, sino que los prendían o mataban, luego el señor de México hacía gente para ir de guerra sobre aquella provincia, y en el exército que iba, los mercaderes eran capitanes y oficiales del exército, elegidos por los señores que regían a los mercaderes, que se llamaba Cuappoyahualtzin y Nentlamatitzin y Huetzcatocatzin, y Zanatzin y Hueiozomatzin. Ellos daban el cargo a los que iban,
\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":"0b159f3f-cd16-4669-a856-721114e6dcfb","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":"with these ornaments during the great festivals. The lords who ruled the merchants were also the ones in charge of ruling over the _tianquiz_,[^35] as well as over all those who would buy and sell there, so that nobody would offend or insult someone else. And they would punish those who committed a crime in the _tianquiz_, and they would set the prices for all the merchandise sold there.\n\nAnd when at any time the lord of Mexico would send merchants and disguised explorers to go to some province [abroad], if [the people there] apprehended or killed them there without giving a good response or a good welcome to those who went there as messengers of the lord of Mexico but apprehended or killed them instead, then the lord of Mexico would immediately summon people to go to wage war against that province. And the merchants would be army captains and officers in the army that was sent there, and they were chosen by the lords who ruled the merchants; [these officers’] names were Cuappoyahualtzin, Nentlamatitzin, Huetzcatocatzin, Zanatzin, and Huey Ozomahtzin. They would give the positions to the ones who were going \n\n\n[^35]: _tianquiz_: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word _tianquiztli_ (marketplace).","html":"with these ornaments during the great festivals. The lords who ruled the merchants were also the ones in charge of ruling over the tianquiz,1 as well as over all those who would buy and sell there, so that nobody would offend or insult someone else. And they would punish those who committed a crime in the tianquiz, and they would set the prices for all the merchandise sold there.
\nAnd when at any time the lord of Mexico would send merchants and disguised explorers to go to some province [abroad], if [the people there] apprehended or killed them there without giving a good response or a good welcome to those who went there as messengers of the lord of Mexico but apprehended or killed them instead, then the lord of Mexico would immediately summon people to go to wage war against that province. And the merchants would be army captains and officers in the army that was sent there, and they were chosen by the lords who ruled the merchants; [these officers’] names were Cuappoyahualtzin, Nentlamatitzin, Huetzcatocatzin, Zanatzin, and Huey Ozomahtzin. They would give the positions to the ones who were going
\ntianquiz: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word tianquiztli (marketplace).↩
in puchtecatlatoque in intequiuh mochioaia: uel iehoatl in tianquiztli quimocuitlauiaia, ipan tlatoaia in maceoalli, inic aiac toliniloz xixicoloz, ica necacaiaoaloz, mictiloz: uel iehoantin quitlatzontequiliaia, in aquin tianquizco texixicohoa, teispopoiochioa, in anoço ichtequi, quitlatzacuiltiaia: auh uel quinâmictiticate in ie isquich, in ie mochi tiãquizco monamaca, in quenin patiohoaz.
\nAuh in icoac tlanaoatiaia motecuçomatzin: izçaçocampa calaquia puchteca, oztomeca, in tecunenēque: intla impan ooalmotzacu, intla ompa omiquito, in aocmo quiuelcaquilia in itlatol Motecuçomatzin: niman hiciuhca iautlanaoatiaia, inic vmpa iauquixoaz, iehoanti teiacantiuia in oztomeca: tlaisquetzaia in puchtecatlatoque, quappoiaoaltzin, nentlamatitzin, vetzcatocatzin, Çanatzin, vei oçomatzin: quinnaoatiaia in aquique teiacantiazque in naoaloztomeca, in campa iehoatl iauquixoaz, uel quintlaquauhnaoatiaia in inte[iacancauh]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"6f781368-7cf1-466f-8cf1-66dececdee56","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":"that the work of the principal merchants became precisely that they cared for the market place. They sponsored the common folk, so that none might suffer, might be deceived, tricked, mistreated. These same pronounced judgment upon him who deceived others in the market place, who cheated them in buying and selling. Or they punished the thief. And they regulated well everything: all in the market place which was sold; what the price would be.\n\nAnd when Moctezuma commanded the merchants, vanguard merchants, the reconnoiterers,[^20] to enter, no matter where, if they were besieged [or] slain there, when [the foe] no longer respected the message of Moctezuma,[^21] then swiftly he declared war, so that then war should break out. The vanguard merchants went in the lead, appointed by the principal merchants Quappoyaualtzin, Nentlamatitzin, Uetzcatocatzin, Çanatzin, [and] Uei oçomatzin. They issued orders to those who would lead the disguised merchants wherever war was to break out. Indeed in strict command over \n\n\n\n\n[^20]: *Ibid*.:* “Los mercaderes y disimulados esploradores.”*\n\n\n[^21]: *Ibid*.:* “si alla los prendian o matauan, sin dar buena respuesta, o buen recibimjento, a los que ibã, como mensajeros, del señor de mexico*:* sino que los prendian o matauan.”*","html":"that the work of the principal merchants became precisely that they cared for the market place. They sponsored the common folk, so that none might suffer, might be deceived, tricked, mistreated. These same pronounced judgment upon him who deceived others in the market place, who cheated them in buying and selling. Or they punished the thief. And they regulated well everything: all in the market place which was sold; what the price would be.
\nAnd when Moctezuma commanded the merchants, vanguard merchants, the reconnoiterers,1 to enter, no matter where, if they were besieged [or] slain there, when [the foe] no longer respected the message of Moctezuma,2 then swiftly he declared war, so that then war should break out. The vanguard merchants went in the lead, appointed by the principal merchants Quappoyaualtzin, Nentlamatitzin, Uetzcatocatzin, Çanatzin, [and] Uei oçomatzin. They issued orders to those who would lead the disguised merchants wherever war was to break out. Indeed in strict command over
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