perveho

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

per-vĕho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to bear, carry, or convey through.

I Lit.: commeatus, Liv. 44, 6, 6.—Mid.: pervehi, to pass through , traverse : Oceanum pervehitur, Tac. A. 2, 8: volucri litora classe, Sil. 4, 51.—

II Transf., to carry , bring , convey to a place: virgines Caere pervexit, Liv. 5, 40: corpus...Romam usque pervexit, Suet. Tib. 7: sandaracha et ochra inde pervehuntur ad nos, Plin. 35, 6, 22, § 39: volo molliter me pervehat (sc. equus), Ap. Deo Socr. p. 54 fin. ; cf. id. M. 1, p. 113, 9.—Mid.: pervehi, to ride , drive , sail , etc., to come or go to a place: dictator ubi currum insidit, pervehitur usque ad oppidum, Poët. (not Enn.) ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Müll.: in portum, Cic. Att. 14, 19, 1; id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: pervectus Chalcidem, Liv. 31, 23: pervectus in Africam, Vell. 2, 55, 1: Gades usque pervectus, Plin. 2, 67, 67, § 169.—Trop., to reach , attain : ad exitus optatos, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19.—Poet., of pedestrians, to go , come , proceed , etc.: cito passu pervecta ad litora, Sil. 8, 126.

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