ungula

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Ille tamen neque terribili stat spumeus ira; Ungula nec celso fervida calce tonat.

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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."

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The first is a prelude in triplets intended to picture the gallop of the steed, a common enough device since the days when Virgil did it much better without the aid of musical notation, in his well-known line,— “Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.”

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

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Ungula: a hoof, claw or talon.

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