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.)