Quadrupes, pe. co. quadrúpedis, pe. co. Aliquando substantinum, aliquando adiectiuum. Te. That hath foure feete.Vt nulla quadrupes possit accedere. Plin. Maiora quadrupedia charactere signari debent. Col. Quadrupedum vectiones.Cic.Animosos quadrupedes regerc.Ouid.To gouerne couragious horses.Distentæ quadrupedes viridi pabulo. Quint. Infans quadrupes.Ouid.A young babe going on al foure.Vasta quadrupes. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
quādrŭpēs (quādrĭpes), pĕdis (gen. plur. quadrupedium, Capitol. Ver. 5, 2), adj. [quattuor-pes], having four feet, going on four feet; esp., A.Galloping (post-Aug.): ecus, Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 5, 4; cf. Macr. S. 6, 9, 10: equestri celeritate, quadrupedi cursu solum replaudens, App. M. 6, p. 185, 7.— Transf.: dum certum flectit in orbem Quadrupedis cursus, Ov. M. 6, 226.— B. Of persons, on all fours, creeping, going on hands and feet: atque audin? quadrupedem constringito,
so that he can only move on all fours
, Ter. And. 5, 2, 24: mox quadrupes (infans) rituque tulit sua membra ferarum, Ov. M. 15, 222: homines ... bestiarum more quadrupedes coërcuit, Suet. Calig. 27; id. Ner.48.—II.Subst.: quādrŭpēs, ĕdis, m., f., and n., a quadruped, four-footed creature.A.Masc., mostly of beasts of draught or burden; v. Quint. 8, 6, 20: calcari quadrupedem agitabo advorsum clivum, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 11: reprime parumper vim citatūm quadrupedum, Att. ap. Non. 495, 20: quadrupedum vectiones, quorum, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 151: de omnibus quadrupedibus ... qui idonei sunt, etc., Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 1; Verg. A. 11, 714: saucius quadrupes, id. ib. 7, 500.— Contemptuously (opp. bipes), Cic. Dom. 18, 48: nihil inter te atque inter quadrupedem interesse, id. Par. 1, 3, 14: quadrupes nequissime, App. M. 7, p. 200, 10.—B.Fem. (sc. bestia): ducite eo mutas quadrupedes, Naev. ap. Non. p. 924 (Trag. Rel. v. 28 Rib.): si quamvis quadrupedem serpens momorderit, Cato, R. R. 102; Enn. ap. Non. p. 407, 22 (Trag. Rel. v. 219 Vahl.): quadrupes tardigrada, Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64, 133 (Trag. Rel. v. 2 Rib.): quadrupes qua vasta tenetur, Cic. N. D. 2, 44, 114; Varr. L. L. 7, 39 Müll.; Verg. E. 5, 26: sollicitari quadripedes cunctas, Plin. 8, 17, 23, 62.— C.Neutr. (sc. animal): cetera quadrupedia, Col. 11, 2, 33: majora, id. 11, 2, 14: crocodilum, quadripes malum et infestum, Plin. 8, 25, 37, 89: plurima autem obruerit quadrupedia, Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 3, 36.