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quadrupedans

quadrupedans, going on four feet, galloping

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

quadrupedāns, antis: (adj.), going on four feet; galloping, 8.596; subst., gen. pl., horses, 11.614.
quā̆drŭ-pĕdans, antis, Part., from the obsol. quadrupedo [quattuor pes].
  • Going on four feet, galloping (poet. and post-Aug.): canterius, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34 (814): 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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