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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.