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dē-vĕho, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to carry down, to carry, convey, take away.

  1. 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.
    1. 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.
  2. II. Trop.: nunc ad tua devehar astra, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 119.

dēvexus, a, um, adj. [deveho], of places, inclining downwards, sloping, shelving, steep (class.—for syn. v. declivis).

  1. I. Lit.: lucus Vestae, qui a Palatii radice in novam viam devexus est, Cic. Div. 1, 45; cf. Liv. 44, 35: mundus in Austros, Verg. G. 1, 241; and: devexus in planum, Plin. Pan. 7, 1, 1: ut de locis superioribus haec declivia et devexa cernebantur, * Caes. B. G. 7, 88: arva, Ov. M. 8, 330: margo (lacus), id. ib. 9, 334 (with acclivus): Orion, i. e. towards his setting, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 21; cf.: sol paulum a meridie, Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4; and dies devexior, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 57: globus devexior, Mart. Cap. 6, § 593.
    Hence, subst.: dēvexum, i, n., an inclined surface, a slope: aqua in devexo fluit, in plano continetur et stagnat, Sen. Q. N. 3, 3.
  2. II. Transf., inclining, declining: aetas jam a diuturnis laboribus devexa ad otium, Cic. Att. 9, 10, 3: aetas, Sen. Ep. 12: devexa et molliter desinens compositio, id. ib. 114, 15.
    Absol.: per devexum ire, i. e. easily, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25 fin.