el señor entristecíase y perdíalos el amor, y buscábalos algunas ocasiones falsas o aparentes para abatirlos y matarlos, aunque sin culpa, sino por odio de su altivez y soberbia, y con las haciendas dellos proveía a los soldados viejos de su corte, que se llamaban cuachichicti, y otros otomi, y otros yautachcahuan. Y con aquéllos sustentaban su fausto y su pompa.
\nCuando alguno de los mercaderes y tratantes tenía ya caudal y presumía de ser rico, hacía una fiesta o banquete a todos los mercaderes principales y señores, porque tenía por cosa de menos valer murirse sin hacer algún espléndido gasto para dar lustre a su persona y gracias a los dioses que se lo habían dado, y contento a sus parientes y amigos, en especial a los principales que regían a todos los mercaderes. Con este propósito comenzaba a comprar todo
\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":"60cd1ff9-3083-4a22-a842-db179e7c4611","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":"#### Chapter seven: On how the merchants held their banquets\n\nWhen one of the merchants and dealers had already accumulated wealth and boasted of being rich, he would hold a feast or banquet for all the head merchants and lords, because he considered it less honorable to die without making a splendid expenditure to enhance his personal reputation, to give thanks to the gods who had granted him [such an abundance of means], and also to bring joy to his relatives and friends, especially to the leaders who ruled over all the merchants.[^48] With this purpose, he would start buying everything \n\n\n[^48]: “The leaders . . . merchants”: _los principales que regían a todos los mercaderes_. The title of these leading merchants was _pochtecatlaloqueh_.","html":"When one of the merchants and dealers had already accumulated wealth and boasted of being rich, he would hold a feast or banquet for all the head merchants and lords, because he considered it less honorable to die without making a splendid expenditure to enhance his personal reputation, to give thanks to the gods who had granted him [such an abundance of means], and also to bring joy to his relatives and friends, especially to the leaders who ruled over all the merchants.1 With this purpose, he would start buying everything
\n“The leaders . . . merchants”: los principales que regían a todos los mercaderes. The title of these leading merchants was pochtecatlaloqueh.↩
in ça iuhqui nentlamati, in ça iztlacatiliztica, tetentlapiquiliztica, tetlanaoalchichiuiliztica: in quintlatzontequiliaia naoaloztomeca intiachcahoan, inic quinmictiaia, in atle intlatlacul: çan nexicoliztica inic inca mozcaltiaia in quachichicti, in otomi, in iautachcahoan: inic inca ohoalotlatocatia, inic ooalmacantia in intecuio, in intlatocaio
\nIn aquin cuicuicaia: icoac in ie miec iasca itlatqui, in ie quitta inecuiltonol, inetlamachtil: in ie oquitlaocoli totecuio: niman ie ic moiolnonotza, ie quitoa. Ca izcatqui, in onechmotlaocolili in totecuio, in tlalticpaque, in tloque naoaque: in icococauh in iascatzin in itlatquitzin: ma moztla ma uiptla nechonmotlaocolili in totecuio, manoce nitlapolo, ma
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"c08a4a22-dfab-43a6-b2c0-1ee2db68e59c","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":"then he was as if saddened. Then the chieftains, in envy, falsely, by means of false testimony, with imagined deeds, condemned the disguised merchants,[^14] in order to slay the innocent, so that by means of [their goods] the shorn ones, the Otomí warriors, the war leaders, might be sustained. Thus, through them, their dignity, their patrimony, advanced [and] spread.[^15]\n\n\n#### Seventh Chapter, which telleth how these merchants at that time held a banquet.\n\nHe who held a banquet, when his possessions, his goods, were already many; when already he had attained his fortune, his wealth; when our lord had shown him mercy, thereupon took counsel with himself; he spoke thus: “Behold, our lord, master of the earth, protector of all, hath shown me mercy [with] his property, his possessions, his goods. May our lord for a little while show me his mercy; may I not lose, may \n\n\n\n\n[^14]: In the *Acad. Hist. MS*, the term is *tiahcaua*.\n\n\n[^15]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”quando se altiuecian, y desuanecian, y se maluauan, con el favor, y honrra, de las riqueças*:* el señor entristeciase, y perdialos, el amor*:* y buscaualos, algunas ocasiones, falsas, o aparentes, para abatirlos, y matarlos*:* aunque sin culpa, sino por odio, de su altiuez, y soberuja, y con las haziendas dellos, proueya a los soldados viejos de su corte, que se llamavan quachichicti, y otros otomj, y otros, yautachcavan*:* y con aquellos sustentauan su fausto, y su pompa.”*—For *ooalmacantia*, the *Acad. Hist. MS* has *ovalmaantia*.","html":"then he was as if saddened. Then the chieftains, in envy, falsely, by means of false testimony, with imagined deeds, condemned the disguised merchants,1 in order to slay the innocent, so that by means of [their goods] the shorn ones, the Otomí warriors, the war leaders, might be sustained. Thus, through them, their dignity, their patrimony, advanced [and] spread.2
\nHe who held a banquet, when his possessions, his goods, were already many; when already he had attained his fortune, his wealth; when our lord had shown him mercy, thereupon took counsel with himself; he spoke thus: “Behold, our lord, master of the earth, protector of all, hath shown me mercy [with] his property, his possessions, his goods. May our lord for a little while show me his mercy; may I not lose, may
\nIn the Acad. Hist. MS, the term is tiahcaua.↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”quando se altiuecian, y desuanecian, y se maluauan, con el favor, y honrra, de las riqueças:* el señor entristeciase, y perdialos, el amor: y buscaualos, algunas ocasiones, falsas, o aparentes, para abatirlos, y matarlos: aunque sin culpa, sino por odio, de su altiuez, y soberuja, y con las haziendas dellos, proueya a los soldados viejos de su corte, que se llamavan quachichicti, y otros otomj, y otros, yautachcavan: y con aquellos sustentauan su fausto, y su pompa.”—For *ooalmacantia, the Acad. Hist. MS has ovalmaantia.↩