to find through much travail and affliction (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
cococ teopouhqui nicnottitia. (pret. cococteopouhqui onicnottiti.) encontrar con trabajos y afliciones. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.