ungula

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In another famous onomatopoeic line— "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum" —Virgil imitates the sound of a galloping horse, and the shaking of the ground beneath its hoofs.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.

Stare adeo miserum est, pereunt vestigia mille Ante fugam, absentemque ferit gravis ungula campum.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

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

Onomatopœia is the suiting of sound to sense; as,— quadrupedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum, 'And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground.'

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

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