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in quiltitlan, in cuauhtitlan.
Headword:
in quiltitlan, in cuauhtitlan.
Principal English Translation:
in the plants, in the woods (a metaphor for where macehuales make their honorable living and receive mercy from their lord)
Orthographic Variants:
in qujltitlan, in quauhtitlan, in quiltitlan, in quauhtitlan.
Attestations from sources in English:
Ca nel noc iuh ca tlatolli in qujltitlan, in quauhtitlan moteicnomachitia in totecujo = Verily, so is the saying that in the plants, in the woods our lord showeth mercy to one (central Mexico, sixteenth century)