The Greek that is translated in English as «serious» or similar is translated in the following ways:
- Sayula Popoluca» «to walk decently»
- Tenango Otomi: «to act so that they will be esteemed»
- Tabasco Chontal: «give them to do the right so that it will fall good to the mind of their fellow men»
- Isthmus Mixe: «that they shouldn’t go around just joking» (Source: John Beekman & Harwood Hess in Notes on Translation, March 1963, p. 1ff.)