trans-vĕho or trāvĕho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to carry, conduct, or convey across or over; to transport (syn.: transporto, transmitto).
- I. Lit.
- A. In gen.: quid militum transvexisset, Caes. B. C. 3, 29: exercitum in Britanniam, Suet. Caes. 58; cf.: copias ponte, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 76: ut jam Hispanos omnes inflati transvexerint utres, Liv. 21, 47, 5: Dardanium agmen (pons), Sil. 4, 489: agmina classe, id. 4, 494: corpus defuncti per vicos, Dig. 47, 13, 3; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1964: navem Argo umeris transvectam Alpes, Plin. 3, 18, 22, § 128.
- b. Mid.: transvehor, to go, come, pass, travel, ride, or sail across or over: caerula cursu, Cic. poët. Fin. 5, 18, 49: Medi, Persae … navibus in Africam transvecti, Sall. J. 18, 4: legiones ex Siciliā in Africam transvectae, id. ib. 28, 6: cum duabus quinqueremibus Corcyram transvectus, Liv. 32, 16, 2: vada Tartari, Sen. Herc. Fur. 889: transvectae (sc. equo) a fronte pugnantium alae, Tac. Agr. 37; cf.: ludicro Circensium Britannicus et Nero transvecti sunt, id. A. 12, 41: transvehitur Tuscos, flies past, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 272.
- B. In partic.
- 1. To carry, bear, lead, or conduct along in triumph: signa tabulasque, Flor. 2, 12: arma spoliaque multa Gallica carpentis transvecta, Liv. 39, 7, 2.
- 2. Of the Roman knights, to ride past before the censor for review (syn. traduco), Liv. 9, 46, 15; Suet. Aug. 38; Dig. 2, 4, 2, § 4; Val. Max. 2, 2, 8.
- II. Trop., of time, to pass by, elapse (Tacitean): abiit jam et transvectum est tempus, quo, etc., Tac. H. 2, 76: transvecta aestas, id. Agr. 18.