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tecuhtitlantli.

Headword: 
tecuhtitlantli.
Principal English Translation: 

envoy of the ruler
Pedro Carrasco Pizana, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Ancient Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and tlacopan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 218.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutitlantli, teuctitlantli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Teix, tenacaz. Inin tlatolli ipan mitoaya in tlatocatitlantli, anozo tecutitlantli in canapa concaoaya tlatocatlatolli = Another's eyes and ears. This phrase was said of a royal emissary or ambassador, who bore the king's orders to other regions Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 148–49.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance