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telpochtlatoani.

Headword: 
telpochtlatoani.
Principal English Translation: 

"leaders of the youths"; refers to a position of leadership within the telpochalli

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 227.

Attestations from sources in English: 

(pl.) telpochtlatoque
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 227.

Intla telpuchpan poviz piltontli: in anoҫo cihoapiltontli: notzalo in telpuchtlatoque = If the baby boy or the baby girl was to belong to the telpochcalli, the rulers of the youths were summoned (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 209.

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