Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems / Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII.

by Daniel G. Brinton

[14] Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, cap. 64.

[15] Ixtlilxochitl, Historia Chichimeca, cap. 47.

[16] Boturini, Idea de una Nueva Historia General, p. 90.

[17] Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, cap. 53.

[18] See Sahagun, Historia de Neuva España, Lib. IV, chap. 17, and Tezozomoc, Cronica Mexicana, cap. 64.

[19] Cuitlaxoteyotl, from cuitatl, mierda; tecuilhuicuicatl, from tecuilhuaztli, sello, tecuilonti, el que lo haze a otro, pecando contra natura. Molina, Vocabulario.

[20] William A. Hammond, The Disease of the Scythians (morbus feminarum) and Certain Analogous Conditions, in the American Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1882.

[21] Cronica Mexicana, cap. 2.

[22] On this subject the reader may consult Parades, Compendio del Arte de la Lengua Mexicana, pp. 5, 6, and Sandoval, Arte de la Lengua Mexicana, pp. 60, 61. Tapia Zenteno whose Arte Novissima de la Lengua Mexicana was published in 1753, rejects altogether the saltillo, and says its invention is of no use except to make students work harder! (pp. 3, 4.) The vowels with saltillo, he maintains, are simply to be pronounced with a slight aspiration. Nevertheless, the late writers continue to employ and describe the saltillo, as Chimalpopoca, Epitome á Modo Facil de aprender el Idioma Nahuatl, p. 6. (Mexico, 1869.)

[23] Arte Novissima de la Lengua Mexicana, pp. 3, 4.