quadrupedans

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

quā̆drŭ-pĕdans, antis, Part., from the obsol. quadrupedo [quattuor pes].

I Going on four feet , galloping (poet. and postAug.): canterius, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34: equo juxta quadrupedante, galloping close by on horseback , Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 182: sonitus, of a horse galloping , Verg. A. 8, 596.—

II Subst., a galloping horse , a steed , courser (poet.): quadrupedantum Pectora, Verg. A. 11, 614.

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