Orbo, orbas, orbâre. Cic.To take from: to depriue of a thing that he setteth much by.Orbare equitatu. Plin. To take his horsemen from him.Orbari auxilio.Cic. Orbate se Iuce. Cic.Orbare sensibus Cic.To take his senses from him.
Orbus, Adiectiuum. Iuuenal. Blinde: bereft of his sight.Luminibus orbus. Plin. Blinde.Altero lumine orbus. Plin. That hath lost the one eye. Palmites orbi. Colum. Vine braunches that doe not budde and shoote out yong. Orbus, per translationem. Valla. Lacking any thing.Auxilij orbus.Plaut.Lacking succour: destitute of helpe.Ciuitas orba.Cic.Orba ab optimatibus concio. Cicero. An assemble where no noble men be.Legatio orba.Cicer.An ambassade that hath loste the chiefe messenger.Orba philosophia in Græcia.Cic.Philosophie destitnte and forsaken in Greece.Plebem orbam ne relinquunto.Cic.Succourlesse.Respublica orba.Cic. Orbus.Cic.A father hauing lost his children.Orbæ suis natis matres. Columella. Mothers that haue loste their children. Orbus. Quint. That hath lost his father or mother.Orba patre virgo.Terent.A mayden fatherlesse.Te incolumi orbi non erunt filij Cic.Whyle thou art aliue, thy children shall not be fatherlesse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
orbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [orbus], to deprive or bereave of parents, children, or other dear persons; to make fatherless, motherless, childless, etc. (class.; syn.: privo, viduo). I.Lit.: filio orbatus, Cic. Off. 1, 10, 30: mater orbata filio, id. Clu. 15, 45: orbatura patres fulmina, Ov. M. 2, 391.—Of animals: catulo lactente orbata leaena, Ov. M. 13, 547.—II.Transf., in gen., to deprive, bereave, strip of any (esp. a precious) thing: pater me lumine orbavit, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 250 P. (Trag. v. 351 Vahl.): Italiam juventute, Cic. Pis. 24, 57: patria multis claris viris orbata, id. Fam. 4, 9, 3: sensibus, id. Ac. 2, 23, 74: tantā gloriā orbatus, id. Tusc. 1, 6, 12: ferum voce eruditā spoliatum atque orbatum, id. Brut. 2, 6.—Poet.: orbatae caligant vela carinae, Stat. S. 5, 3, 138.
orbus, a, um, adj. [kindr. with Gr. o)rfano/s; cf. Fest. p. 183 Müll.], bereaved, bereft, of parents or children; parentless, fatherless, childless (class.; cf. pupillus). I.Lit.: senex, Cic. Par. 5, 2, 39; cf.: parens liberorum an orbus sit, Quint. 5, 10, 26; 7, 4, 23: filii mei, te incolumi, orbi non erunt, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 3, 10.—With gen.: Memnonis orba mei venio, Ov. M. 13, 595.—With ab: a totidem natis orba, Ov. H. 6, 156.—Of beasts: liberis orbae oves, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 38.—Subst.: orba, ae, f., an orphan: ut orbae, qui sunt genere proximi, iis nubant, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 75; Quint. 7, 4, 24.—Also, = vidua, a widow: censa civium capita centum quatuor milia ... praeter orbos orbasque,
orphans and widows
, Liv. 3, 3, 9 (for which: praeter pupillos et viduas, id. Epit. 59; cf. Becker's Antiq. 2, 2, p. 205).—II.Transf., deprived, bereft, destitute, devoid of any thing, esp. of something precious: arce et urbe orba sum, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 114 Vahl.): plebs orba tribunis, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 9: ab optimatibus contio, id. Fl. 23, 54: rebus omnibus, id. Fam. 4, 13, 3: forum litibus, Hor. C. 4, 2, 43: regio animantibus orba,
without inhabitants
, Ov. M. 1, 72: verba viribus, id. H. 21, 142: fide pectora, id. Am. 2, 2, 42: orbus omnibus sensibus, Vell. 1, 5, 4: cubile,