All 17 Uses of
convey
in
The Aeneid
- Fear broke my slumbers; I no longer stay, But mount the terrace, thence the town survey, And hearken what the frightful sounds convey.†
Book 2
- Did you, for this, unhappy me convey Thro' foes and fires, to see my house a prey?†
Book 2
- Then, unobserv'd, I pass by Juno's church: A guard of Grecians had possess'd the porch; There Phoenix and Ulysses watch prey, And thither all the wealth of Troy convey: The spoils which they from ransack'd houses brought, And golden bowls from burning altars caught, The tables of the gods, the purple vests, The people's treasure, and the pomp of priests.†
Book 2
- I yield to Fate, unwillingly retire, And, loaded, up the hill convey my sire.†
Book 2
- Some friendly god From thence convey'd us to your blest abode."†
Book 3
- Eliza shall a Dardan lord obey, And lofty Carthage for a dow'r convey."†
Book 4 *
- Thus, in battalia, march embodied ants, Fearful of winter, and of future wants, T' invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plunder'd forage of their yellow prey.†
Book 4
- The chaste Sibylla shall your steps convey, And blood of offer'd victims free the way.†
Book 5
- Nor shalt thou want thy honors in my land; For there thy faithful oracles shall stand, Preserv'd in shrines; and ev'ry sacred lay, Which, by thy mouth, Apollo shall convey: All shall be treasur'd by a chosen train Of holy priests, and ever shall remain.†
Book 6
- Know this, the realm of night— the Stygian shore: My boat conveys no living bodies o'er; Nor was I pleas'd great Theseus once to bear, Who forc'd a passage with his pointed spear, Nor strong Alcides— men of mighty fame, And from th' immortal gods their lineage came.†
Book 6
- Meantime my worthy wife our arms mislaid, And from beneath my head my sword convey'd; The door unlatch'd, and, with repeated calls, Invites her former lord within my walls.†
Book 6
- For well you know, and can record alone, What fame to future times conveys but darkly down.†
Book 7
- Allur'd with hope of plunder, and intent By force to rob, by fraud to circumvent, The brutal Cacus, as by chance they stray'd, Four oxen thence, and four fair kine convey'd; And, lest the printed footsteps might be seen, He dragg'd 'em backwards to his rocky den.†
Book 8
- The woods to hollow vales convey the sound, The vales to hills, and hills the notes rebound.†
Book 8
- The conqu'ring party first divide the prey, Then their slain leader to the camp convey.†
Book 9
- Their friends convey the dead fun'ral fires; Black smold'ring smoke from the green wood expires; The light of heav'n is chok'd, and the new day retires.†
Book 11
- Part in the places where they fell are laid; And part are to the neighb'ring fields convey'd.†
Book 11
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express