Note 12 — Chapter VII · March to the Sacred City of Cholula—The Natives Plot the Destruction of the Spaniards—Cortes Discovers their Treachery and Slaughters Several Thousand Indians—March to Mexico—Montezuma Meets the Strangers and Escorts them to the Capital
George P. (George Putnam) Upton translation
“Tenochtitlan” (nopal or cactus on a stone) was the original name of the city, afterward changed to “Mexico” in honor of the war god Mexitli.