? sb. In the following passage ‘in conuers’ is perh. a scribal error for ‘in conuex,’ the Ital. original having i conuessi ‘the convexes’; if Chaucer wrote ‘in conuers,’ he must have read the It. as i conuersi.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 1810. His gost … is went Vp to [þe] holughnesse of þe seuenþe spere, In conuers letynge eueryche element. [Boccaccio, Tes., XI. i. L’anima … volando Ver la concauità del cielo ottava Degli elementi i conuessi lasciando.]
