Note 496 — Chapter XIV · NAHUA LAWS AND LAW COURTS.
Reading edition
'Al que él sentenciava le arrojava una flecha de aquellas.' Tezozomoc, Crónica Mex., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., tom. ix., p. 57. 'A capital sentence was indicated by a line traced with an arrow across the portrait of the accused.' Prescott's Mex., vol. i., p. 33.