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tlaotonxinti.

Headword: 
tlaotonxinti.
Principal English Translation: 

a label given to brave but wicked warriors who were furious in battle and who "only came paying the tribute of death" -- also called Otomí and quaquachictin

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), 110.

themes: 
War, Conflict