dē-vĕho, xi, ctum, 3
* V. a., to carry down, to carry, convey, take away.
* Prop. (class.; most freq. in the histt.): has (carinas) carris junctis devehit noctu milia passuum a castris XXII.,Caes. B. C. 1, 54, 3: legionem equis,id. B. G. 1, 43, 2: maximos commeatus (Tiberis), Liv. 4, 52: id simulacrum Syracusis,Curt. 4, 3: devecta cremato Sarmenta, *Verg. G. 2, 408 et saep.—Designating the term. ad quem: aliquem in Anactorium,Plaut. Poen. prol. 87: quod (frumentum) eo tolerandae hiemis causa devexerat,Caes. B. G. 5, 47, 2; cf. Liv. 5, 54: tritici decies centum milia ad mare,id. 43, 6: frumentum in Graeciam,id. 36, 2: saucios in oppidum,id. 40, 33 et saep.
* Pass. in middle sense, to go away, to go down, descend: Veliam devectus Brutum vidi, *Cic. Phil. 1, 4: Tiberi devectus,Tac. A. 3, 9; cf. Rheno,id. ib. 4, 73: Arare flumine,id. H. 2, 59: Misenum usque devectus,Suet. Tib. 72 et saep.
* Trop.: nunc ad tua devehar astra,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 119.

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