miraban el signo próspero para entrar en su tierra. Y llegando el signo que era próspero, o cerca dél, partían de priesa para venir a sus casas, para entrar durante aquel signo. Y no entraban de día, sino de noche y en canoa, y secretamente, y nadie vía lo que traían, porque lo encubrían mucho. Y no iban derechos a su casa, sino entrábanse en la casa de algún su tío o tía, o de su hermana, o de algún otro de quien se confiaban, que tendría secreto, que era humilde y callado y cuerdo, y que no tomaba lo ajeno. Allí en aquella casa los barqueros ponían de presto lo que traían, y se volvían de noche a sus casas; y desque amanecía no había rastro ni señal de nada. Y el mercader dueño de aquella hacienda no confesaba, no decía que aquella hacienda fuese suya; mas antes decía a los de la casa: "Esta hacienda guardalda, y no penséis que es mía, ni penséis que como cosa mía os la doy a guardar; que es de los señores mercaderes principales. Ellos me lo encomendaron que lo truxiese aquí." Y por los pueblos por donde pasaban en todo el camino,
\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":"76202cbc-2f52-43c1-9ae9-fe265a159cf1","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":"and look for the most prosperous [day] sign to return to their own land. And as soon as the prosperous [day] sign arrived, or one close to it, they would depart in haste in order to return to their homes, so that they could return during that very [day] sign. And they would return not during the day but at night, in a canoe. And [they would do it] secretly, and nobody was able to see what they were bringing, because they would cover it all up very well. And they would not go straight home, but they would go to the house of an uncle, an aunt, a sister, or somebody else they trusted, someone who would keep their secret: a person who was humble, discreet, and sensible, one who would not take away somebody else’s property. The boatmen would swiftly unload there at that house the things that they were bringing along, and they would return to their own homes at night; and at dawn, not a trace or sign of anything would be left behind. And the merchant who owned that property would not confess or admit that the property was his, but he would instead say to the members of the household, “Guard this property, and do not think that it is mine or think that I am giving it to you to guard as if it were mine; for it belongs to the leading head merchants.[^47] They entrusted it to me to bring it here.” And in every town along the road where they were passing through, \n\n\n[^47]: “The leading head merchants”: _los señores mercaderes principales_. The Nahuatl text denotes these as the senior _oztomecah_ merchants.","html":"and look for the most prosperous [day] sign to return to their own land. And as soon as the prosperous [day] sign arrived, or one close to it, they would depart in haste in order to return to their homes, so that they could return during that very [day] sign. And they would return not during the day but at night, in a canoe. And [they would do it] secretly, and nobody was able to see what they were bringing, because they would cover it all up very well. And they would not go straight home, but they would go to the house of an uncle, an aunt, a sister, or somebody else they trusted, someone who would keep their secret: a person who was humble, discreet, and sensible, one who would not take away somebody else’s property. The boatmen would swiftly unload there at that house the things that they were bringing along, and they would return to their own homes at night; and at dawn, not a trace or sign of anything would be left behind. And the merchant who owned that property would not confess or admit that the property was his, but he would instead say to the members of the household, “Guard this property, and do not think that it is mine or think that I am giving it to you to guard as if it were mine; for it belongs to the leading head merchants.1 They entrusted it to me to bring it here.” And in every town along the road where they were passing through,
\n“The leading head merchants”: los señores mercaderes principales. The Nahuatl text denotes these as the senior oztomecah merchants.↩
[quit]taia in qualli tonalli[, açoc mahtlacilhuitia, anoçoc cempoualilhuitia in quichie qualli tonalli]. Auh in ie ipan qualli tonalli: çan niman icoac oaltotocatiuetzi, inic uel ipan oalcalaquia in inchan, amo cemilhuitl, çã iohoaltica in acaltica oalcalactiuetzia.
\nAuh in intlatqui: aiac uel quittaia in quesquich, in aço cemacalli, cenca quitlatiaia, quitlapachoaia: amo inchan in oallacia, aço iitla, aço iiahui ichan, anoço iueltiuh, anoço çan aca ichan in ipan oalcalaquia: iehoatl in aquin qualli iiollo, in amo ihiztlacati, in amo monônonotza: i çan itolol, imalcoch ic nemi, in amono ihichtequi, in uel mimati. Auh in oconquistiuetzico in tlapanaui: niman hiciuhca quiuicatiquiça in iacal in ooallatuic atle mantoc.
\nAuh in iehoatl tlatquioa: amo quimomachitoca, amo quimascatia, amo qujmotlatquitoca: çan quitoa quimilhuia in quintlapieltia: nican ca oc xicmopielican, ma anquitoti aço iasca aço itlatqui, in techpieltia, çan nioalitquitiloc: imasca intachcaoan oztomeca.
\nAuh in ompa altepetl
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"62cad7a7-a16e-4783-8dec-27d239f030b3","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":"sought a favorable day sign; [perhaps still ten or still twenty days they awaited the good day sign].[^12] And when it was a good day sign, at once they quickly traveled, so that indeed upon [that day sign] they might enter their homes. Not by day but by night they swiftly entered by boat.\n\nAnd as to their goods, no one could see how much there was; perhaps they carefully hid—covered up—all the boats. Not at one’s [own] home did one arrive, [but] perhaps at the house of his uncle or his aunt, or of his elder sister; or it was only someone else’s house into which he went—one who was of good heart, who told no lies, who held his peace, who lived in humility, in sadness. Nor was he a thief; he was prudent. And when he had quickly come to unload what he had acquired, then swiftly he took away his boat. When it dawned, nothing remained.\n\nAnd this owner of the goods did not acknowledge them; he did not take the goods himself; he did not claim them as his own. He only said, speaking to those whom he charged with guarding them: “Here it is. Thou must guard it. Do not say, ‘Perhaps these are his property or his goods which we are given to guard’; only the possessions of the principal vanguard merchants have been brought here by me.”\n\nAnd there in the cities, \n\n\n\n\n[^12]: After *tonalli*, the *Acad. Hist. MS* includes material inserted here in the Aztec text in brackets.","html":"sought a favorable day sign; [perhaps still ten or still twenty days they awaited the good day sign].1 And when it was a good day sign, at once they quickly traveled, so that indeed upon [that day sign] they might enter their homes. Not by day but by night they swiftly entered by boat.
\nAnd as to their goods, no one could see how much there was; perhaps they carefully hid—covered up—all the boats. Not at one’s [own] home did one arrive, [but] perhaps at the house of his uncle or his aunt, or of his elder sister; or it was only someone else’s house into which he went—one who was of good heart, who told no lies, who held his peace, who lived in humility, in sadness. Nor was he a thief; he was prudent. And when he had quickly come to unload what he had acquired, then swiftly he took away his boat. When it dawned, nothing remained.
\nAnd this owner of the goods did not acknowledge them; he did not take the goods himself; he did not claim them as his own. He only said, speaking to those whom he charged with guarding them: “Here it is. Thou must guard it. Do not say, ‘Perhaps these are his property or his goods which we are given to guard’; only the possessions of the principal vanguard merchants have been brought here by me.”
\nAnd there in the cities,
\nAfter tonalli, the Acad. Hist. MS includes material inserted here in the Aztec text in brackets.↩