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Updated: May 26, 2025
So we hastily picked up our beds with the wounded, and retreated with all speed behind the line of battle. We had hardly reached security when, from both sides, the cavalry advanced, both friends and enemies. The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum."
This device like alliteration is a method of intensifying the expression of a passage, and is frequently adopted by the poets. 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.
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