dē-vĕho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to carry down, to carry, convey, take away.
I 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.—
B 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.—
II Trop.: nunc ad tua devehar astra, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 119.