‘When, perchance, one drank; if one yet a small child drank first, and afterwards one drank who was a little older, already grown, then [the elder] restrained and took the water from the small child. He said to him: “Why dost thou wish to drink first? Thou wilt not grow large, but remain small. Now let they elder brother drink, for he is already bigger.”’
Image from Book 5 of the Florentine Codex (original in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence) scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994
Quote from The Florentine Codex, Book 5 - The Omens (appendix), trans. Dibble & Anderson, University of Utah, 1981, p. 185.
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