A circle: a rounde compasse: a rounde couer or trencher: a rundle to set dishes on for soyling the table cloth. The world: a continuall course or succession of things in the worlde. A continuation, order and knitting of things in writing with a certaine measure. A region or countrie: a great company of men. A yeare. Orbis pilæ. Plin. The roundnesse of a ball. Orbis ablaquèationis, Colum. A round pitte digged aboute the roote of a vine or other tree when the roote is clensed. Orbis saltatorius. Cic. A ring in dauncing rounde: a round. Orbem saltatorium versare. Cice. To daunce rounde or in a ring. Angues immensis orbibus. Virg. Agere in orbem. Vide AGO. Curuare iter in orbem. Ouid. Ducere orbem. Ouid. To make a circle. Immensum spiris facientibus orbem, Ouid. Lanam glomerabat in orbes. Ouid. She winded vp yarne in bottoms. Vago orbe labens serpens. Stat. Rapit immensos orbes per humum. Virg. Flexos sinuaui corpus in orbes. Ouid. I wrapped my bodie rounde in circles. Multiplices in orbes sinuatur crinis. Claud. In orbem torquere aliquid. Cicer. To bende round: to make a circle of. In orbem, Vide IN Præpositionem. In orbem ire. Liu. To goe round or in a ring. Vt idem in singulos annos orbis volúeretur. Liu. That they might be occupied in the same thing euery yeere: that euery yeere they might a fresh beginne one thing. Orbis. Ouid. A great multitude or companie of people. Spisso orbe circÛdare aliquÊ. Sil To stand thicke about one. Orbem facere. Salust. To make a ring: to stande rounde, that they may be readie for their enimies euery way. Sustentanrem, fouentémque orbe quodam societatis ambire. Plin. iun. To goe from one to an other as it were in circuite of socierie succouring and ayding euery one in his course. Historia orbem quendam cõtextúmque desyderat. Quint. An historie requireth a certaine orderly course and knitting together of the style. In Thucydide orbem orationis desydero. Cic. In Thucidides I finde want of an apt continuation and knitting of his style and oration. Quum circuitum & quasi orbem verborum conficere non possent. &c. Cic. When they cannot make an apt periode with a full compasse and measure of words. Absoluere orbem. Liu. Conficit orbem suum forma, concinnitásque verborum. Ci. Conficiunt orbes suos & circulos celeritate mitabili stellæ, Cic. The starres goe their courses and circuites marueylous swiftly. Infimo orbe luna radijs solis accensa conuertitur. Cic. Exactus orbis lunnæ. Lucan. The moone at full compasse: the full moone. Luna expleuit orbÊ plenis cornibus. Ou. It was full moone. Orbis, pro anno. Virg. An yeere. Annuus exactis completur mensibus orbis. Virg. Orbis. Plin. The worlde. Orbis terræ, Idem. Cic. Caput orbis, Roma. Ouid. Princeps orbis terrarum. Cic. Extremus orbis. Ouid. Dimensus orbis certis partibus. Virg. Peragrare orbem omnium terrarum. Cic. To goe about the whole worlde. Pacatum reget orbem. Virg. Orbis Plin. A region or countrey. Alienus orbis, Vide Alienus in ALIVS. Orbis procul diuersus patria. Ouid. Peregrinus orbis. Ouid. A strange lande. Orbis rotarum, Plin. The rounde circle or ring of wheeles. Ferrati orbes. Virg. Rapidi orbes. Val. Flac. Reuoluto orbe nunquam insistens tota. Senec. Orbis Martial. A trencher. vt. Tu Lybicos Indis suspendis dentibus orbes. Orbis Cato. A rounde couer. Cauus orbis. Virg. A round targate hollowe.

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.

I. Lit.: in orbem torquere, Cic. Univ. 7: curvare aliquid in orbem, Ov. M. 2, 715: certumque equitavit in orbem, id. ib. 12, 468.—Of a ring: et digitum justo commodus orbe teras, fit exactly, Ov. Am. 2, 15, 6: unionum, roundness, Plin. 9, 35, 56, 113.—Of a circle formed by men: ut in orbem consisterent, place themselves in a circle, form a circle, Caes. B. G. 5, 33: cum illi, orbe facto, se defenderent, id. ib. 4, 37: orbem volventes suos increpans, Liv. 4, 28: in orbem pugnare, id. 28, 22, 15: in orbem sese stantibus equis defendere, id. 28, 33, 15: stella (fae/qwn) eundem duodecim signorum orbem annis duodecim conficit, the zodiac, Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 52: lacteus, the Milky Way, id. Rep. 6, 16, 16.—Of the orbit of a heavenly body: sidera circulos suos orbesque conficiunt, Cic. Rep. 6, 15, 15.—Of a serpent, the windings, coils: immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, Verg. A. 2, 204.—Of a circular surface or disk: orbis mensae, a round table-top, Ov. H. 17, 87; cf. Juv. 11, 122.—Also, simply orbes, a round table, Mart. 2, 43; Juv. 1, 137.—Of a quoit or discus: ictus ab orbe, Ov. Ib. 590.—Of the scale of a balance: instabilis natat alterno depressior orbe, Tib. 4, 1, 44.—Of a mirror: addidit et nitidum sacratis crinibus orbem, Mart. 9, 18, 5.—Of a shield: illa (hasta) per orbem Aere cavum triplici ... Transiit, Verg. A. 10, 783; Petr. 89.—Of a mosaic pavement of rounded pieces of marble, Juv. 11, 175.—Of a scale, one side of a balance, Tib. 4, 1, 44.—Of the millstones of an oil-mill, Cato, R. R. 22.—Of the wooden disk placed over olives in pressing them, Cato, R. R. 18.—Of the hoop or tire of a wheel: rotarum orbes circumacti, Plin. 8, 16, 19, 52.—Of the wheel itself: undaque jam tergo ferratos sustinet orbes, Verg. G. 3, 361.—Hence, the wheel of fortune, Tib. 1, 5, 70; Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 7; id. P. 2, 3, 56.—Of the socket of the eye: inanem luminis orbem, Ov. M. 14, 200.—Of the eye itself: gemino lumen ab orbe venit, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 16: ardentes oculorum orbes ad moenia torsit, Verg. A. 12, 670.—Of the sun's disk or orb: lucidus orbis, Verg. G. 1, 459.—Of the moon's disk or orb: quater junctis implevit cornibus orbem Luna, quater plenum tenuata retexuit orbem, Ov. M. 7, 530.—Of the circle of the world, the world, the universe: Juppiter arce suā totum cum spectet in orbem, Ov. F. 1, 85: renatus, the new-born day, Sil. 5, 56: terrarum or terrae, the circle or orb of the earth, the world (since the ancients regarded the earth as a circular plane or disk): permittitur infinita potestas orbis terrarum, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 33: ager Campanus orbis terrae pulcherrimus, id. ib. 2, 28, 76; id. Sest. 30, 66: cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis? Verg. A. 1, 233; cf. id. ib. 7, 224.—Also, simply orbis (so mostly poet.): hic, ubi nunc Roma est orbis caput, arbor et herbae, Ov. F. 5, 93: unus, Juv. 10, 168; 4, 148: universus, Vulg. Luc. 2, 1; id. Apoc. 12, 9.—Hence, a country, region, territory: Eoo dives ab orbe redit, the East, Ov. F. 3, 466: Assyrius, Juv. 2, 108: noster, Plin. 12, 12, 26, 45.—A kind of fish, Plin. 32, 2, 5, 14 Sillig; cf. Isid. Orig. 12, 6, 6.—

II. Trop., a circle.

A. Of things that return at a certain period of time, a rotation, round, circuit: ut idem in singulos annos orbis volveretur, Liv. 3, 10: insigne regium in orbem per omnes iret, in rotation, id. 3, 36: orbis hic in re publicā est conversus, the circle of political changes, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 1.—

B. Orbis doctrinae, an encyclopœdia: orbis ille doctrinae quam Graeci e)gku/klion paidei/an vocant, Quint. 1, 10, 1.—

C. Of speech, a rounding off, roundness, rotundity: circuitum, et quasi orbem verborum conficere, Cic. de Or. 3, 51, 198: orationis, id. Or. 71, 234: historia non tam finitos numeros quam orbem quendam contextumque desiderat, Quint. 9, 4, 129.—

D. A circle or cycle of thought: sententiae Pyrrhonis in hunc orbem quem circumscripsimus, incidere non possunt, Cic. Fin. 5, 8, 23; cf.: circa vilem patulumque orbem, Hor. A. P. 132.—

E. Esp.: in orbem ire, to go the rounds, go around: quinque dierum spatio finiebatur imperium ac per omnes in orbem ibant, in turn, Liv. 1, 17, 6; 3, 36, 3.

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.