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

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "_Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum_."

Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864
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."

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818
"Pulverulenta putrem fonitu qua tit ungula campum."

The Works of the English Poets 1779
'Atque animam in tegetes putrem e! zfputare piternaa.

Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777