All translators have rendered "contus" by "pole," notwithstanding the fact that the word is used in a very different sense in Priapeia, x, 3: "traiectus conto sic extendere pedali," and contrary to the tradition which lay behind the gift of an apple or the acceptance of one.
"The Satyricon, Complete"
Petronius Arbiter
Pues savido esto Picado se fue luego y lo conto al marquez y el le rrespondio.
"History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas"
Prescott, William Hickling