The corpus record — Latin

deveho

to go away, to go down, descend

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dē-vĕho — Lewis & Short

dē-vĕho, xi, ctum, 3,

I 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.

Where it came from

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