Heaped over with a mound of grass,
Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass.”
[26] [See Proverbial Expressions.]
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[33] The poet here inserts a famous line which is thought to imitate in its sound the galloping of horses. It may be thus translated: “Then struck the hoofs of the steeds on the ground with a four-footed trampling.”—[See Proverbial Expressions.]