Crossword-Solution: UNGULA 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The English verse which we call heroic consists of no more than ten syllables; the Latin hexameter sometimes rises to seventeen; as, for example, this verse in Virgil:— “Pulverulenta putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.” Here is the difference of no less than seven syllables in a line betwixt the English and the Latin.

Actual diseases of the eye are discussed in chapters on pain in the eyes, ophthalmia, pannus (including ungula, egilops and cataract), tumors of the conjunctiva, itching of the eyes, lachrymation, cancer, diseases of the cornea and uvea, diseases of the eyelids, lachrymal fistula and entropion.

The earth shook with the stamping of the hoofs, "_Quadrupedante putrem crepitu quatit ungula campum_." Avoiding our right wing, a regiment of Prussian hussars was galloping towards us; a regiment of French chasseurs on horseback, under command of the commander-in-chief, Marshal Douay, in person, was dashing from the hills to meet them.

The inscription _Ungula Alcis_ (the hoof of the elk) suggests a superstitious attitude in medical practice and the wide use of animal organs in medical treatment.

When you hear, for example, the well-known _procumbit humi bos_, do you not seem to hear the blunt sound of the falling bull? Or when you read the line _Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum_,[2] doesn't the sound of running horses strike your ears? But this effect, as I said, is uncommon, and hardly to be found in any other poet than Vergil.