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per-vĕho , xi, ctum, 3, v. a.,
I.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),App. de 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 14.19.1
    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 7
    • Tacitus, Annales, 2.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 35.39
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 40
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 31, 23
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.49
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 2.6
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