ungula
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The English verse which we call heroic consists of no more than ten syllables; the Latin hexameter sometimes rises to seventeen; as, for example, this verse in Virgil:- "Pulverulenta putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John
Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the possible borrowing from Ennius Ann 439 Vahlen3 'it eques et plausu caua concutit ungula terram'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
Center of gravity of an ungula and semi-cylinder.
From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Record, Samuel J.
The horses are better; there is the dash of high venture in them; they have snuffed battle; their limbs are suppled to a bounding gallop,—as where in the Æneid, "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
Some have supposed it a poetical imitation of the sound of the trampling of horses, and compare this passage with the celebrated line of Virgil--"Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus
