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sonipes

sonipes, with sounding feet, noisy-footed

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

sonipēs, edis: adj. (sonus and pēs), noisy-hoofed; subst. m., horse, courser, steed, 4.135.
sŏnĭ-pēs (sŏnŭpēs), pĕdis, adj. [sonus],
  • with sounding feet, noisy-footed (poet.): turba (in Isidis sacris), Grat. Cyn. 43.—As subst., noisy-foot, i.e. a horse, a prancer, steed: fremit aequore toto Insultans sonipes et pressis pugnat habenis, Verg. A. 11, 600; Cat. 63, 41; Sil. 1, 222; Val. Fl. 3, 334; Stat. Th. 5, 3 al. (in Cic., sonipedes is cited as an example of a fourth paeon, de Or. 3, 47, 183).

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