ungula

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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."

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

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

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 Hall, Benjamin Homer

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