Habiendo reposado el que había de hacer el banquete, comenzaba a aparejar todo lo necesario para los principales mercaderes y para los que llamaban nahualoztomécah. Hacíalos saber primeramente a tres principales: el uno se llamaba Cuappoyahualtzin; y el segundo, Huetzcatocatzin; y el tercero, Zanatzin, que eran los principales mercaderes y que regían a los otros mercaderes. A éstos daba comida y bebida, y cañas de humo. Y dábalos mantas conforme a sus merecimientos, mantas que llaman amanepaniuhqui, y mastles de cabos largos que llamaban yacahuíac, todo rico. Después de haber hecho lo dicho sentábase delante dellos, y decíales: "Señores míos, aunque yo os sea prolixo y pesado, quiéroos decir dos palabras. Y es que tengo propósito de ver la cara a nuestro señor Huitzilopuchtli, haciéndole un pequeño servicio. Hame hecho merced nuestro señor de que he allegado un poco de hacienda que él me ha dado. Quiérolo gastar en alguna buena obra de su servicio. Esto hago saber a vuestras mercedes, y no más." Luego ellos le respondían, diciendo:
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\n“The head merchants”: los principales mercaderes. The Nahuatl title is in pochtecatlatoque in nahualoztomecah.↩
Niman hiciuhca qujcencahoa, in intech monequiz, in puchtecatlatoque, in naoaloztomeca: çan oc eintin in quincaquitia, quappoiaoaltzin, Vetzcatocatzin, çanatzin, quintlaqualtia, quimatlitia, quimiiemaca, quintlauhtia iehoatl in quinmaca in omoteneuh, in intech poui in naoaloztomeca, in amanepaniuhqui, ioan tlaçomastlatl iacauiiac.
\nAuh in oquimoncencauh, niman ie imispan onmotlalia, quimilhuia. Pillitzine: namechnotlalcaoaltiliz, namechnotlapololtiliz, ca izcatqui: anquimanilia, anquimocuilia, ca isco, icpac, nontlachieznequi, in tetzauitl, in Vitzilobuchtli: anca cana cetzin, omonexiti, in icococauh, in tlacatl totecuio. Cana nontlapoloz, nontlaatoctiz, nontlachitoniz: ca ic pachiui in amoiollotzin.
\nNiman ie ic quitlatlauhtia: quilhuia. Telpuchtle, ca nican tica: ac tehoantin, ac titomati: in nican
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"0e50fef8-2cfc-48ae-82ca-e0579c1ed0a3","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":"#### when he returned from the invited guests.\n\nThen he quickly prepared what would be required for the principal merchants, the disguised merchants. First he notified three [of them]: Quappoyaualtzin, Uetzcatocatzin, [and] Çanatzin. He gave them food, drink, tubes of tobacco, gifts. He gave them the things [already] mentioned which pertained to the disguised merchants: capes with plaited paper ornaments and precious breech clouts with long ends.\n\nAnd when he had prepared these things for them, he then seated himself before them; he said to them: “O noblemen, you will pardon me that I trouble you. For, behold, you have received, you have grasped [my words], that I wish to behold the presence of the portent, Uitzilopochtli, because somewhere some of the wealth of the master, our lord, hath been shown me. Somewhere I shall make use of it; I shall cast it into the water; I shall reap a profit. With this you are content.”\n\nThereupon they besought him; they said to him: “O youth, thou who art here, who are we? Who do we think we are that","html":"Then he quickly prepared what would be required for the principal merchants, the disguised merchants. First he notified three [of them]: Quappoyaualtzin, Uetzcatocatzin, [and] Çanatzin. He gave them food, drink, tubes of tobacco, gifts. He gave them the things [already] mentioned which pertained to the disguised merchants: capes with plaited paper ornaments and precious breech clouts with long ends.
\nAnd when he had prepared these things for them, he then seated himself before them; he said to them: “O noblemen, you will pardon me that I trouble you. For, behold, you have received, you have grasped [my words], that I wish to behold the presence of the portent, Uitzilopochtli, because somewhere some of the wealth of the master, our lord, hath been shown me. Somewhere I shall make use of it; I shall cast it into the water; I shall reap a profit. With this you are content.”
\nThereupon they besought him; they said to him: “O youth, thou who art here, who are we? Who do we think we are that
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