auh no miequintin yn amo piloloque tliltique yhuã mulatoti çan oncan tzauhcticatca yn carcel de corte tlatatolchixticate = Also many blacks and mulattoes who were not hanged were just locked up in the court jail awaiting sentence. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 224–225.
On the difference between use of passive and reflexive, see Carochi/Lockhart 272 n3.
pochoquauhtitech quinpilloque yn omentin tlahtoque = they hanged two rulers on a silk cotton tree
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 38–39.
achtopa piloloc Juo franco niman Juo Miguel Ocoton mecatl tlazin ohuetzico niman oc sepa otlecoc momiq~li = First Juan Francisco was hanged. Then Juan Miguel; the rope broke and he fell down. Then he climbed up again and died.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 102–103.
yn opilolocb se mestiso ytoca felipe pullero ocatca auh ychtequi omocueph = a mestizo named Felipe was hanged. He had been a poulterer but turned into a thief.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 140–141.
huel otlapipiloloc yn ipa calotli huel mamahuistic altars oquintlatlaique = everything was greatly festooned, and they set up very magnificent altars here and there on the streets
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 142–143.
mopiloa = it hangs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 95.
"nica yn ipan Ciudad depeacac oquipilunque popoluquispa tlacatl ypampa españ oquimictique ychpixque catca mayordomos yn quimictique atlxoxocauh chane" = "people were hanged here in the city of Tepeaca. People from Popoloquizpan were hanged because they killed a Spaniard. They were shepherds, and the person they killed was a mayordomo, citizen of Atlxoxocauh." An added note in Spanish says that those who were hanged at 3 PM on Friday were drawn and quartered ("descuartizaron") on Saturday at 8 AM. (Anales mexicanos, Puebla, Tepeaca, Cholula, 1524–1645)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 74, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.
piloa (verb) = to hang down, to suspend
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 160.
"9 Acatl 1526 Nica otepillo teopixqui Fray Martin de Valencia tlaxcallan ipampa tlateotoquiliztli" = "9 Reed (year) 1526. In this year fray Martínb de Valencia hanged people in Tlaxcala because of idolatry." (Anales de Tlaxcala, no. 1, 1453–1603)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 54, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.