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 Arthur H. Savory
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 Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum."
From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai
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 Mark Bear Akrigg
The Governor's life-guard, in splendid uniform, prancing to and fro, 'Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.'
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
