in tetlapallo, pilli tlatocapan pouhqui, tlatocaiutl itech quizqui, anoço uel tepiltzin anoço calpan tepiltzin. = The noblewoman [is] of nobilty, belongs to the order of rulers, comes from rulership whether she is legitimate or a bastard child. (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), 49.
in tetlapallo piltic tecpiltic, tlacamelaoac, uel ca yiollo, iolteutl. = the one of noble lineage [is] dignified, courteous, well disposed, good-hearted, steadfast. (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), 22.