Usages of calcitrare
Si frenum nimis durum est, equa quoque calcitrare incipit.
If the bridle is too hard, the mare also begins to kick.
Serva cauta retro stat, ne mulus calcitret.
The careful maid stands back, so that the mule may not kick.
Pater putat frenum a serva nimis celeriter positum esse et ideo mulum calcitrare incipere.
Father thinks that the bridle has been put on too quickly by the maid and that therefore the mule is beginning to kick.
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