I.bereavement of parents or children, of a husband or other dear person, childlessness, orphanage, widowhood (class.).
I. Lit.: “in orbitatem liberos producere,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 105: “bonum liberi, misera orbitas,” Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: “familiaris,” Liv. 26, 41, 9: “mea, quod sine liberis sum,” Curt. 6, 9, 12: “tutorem instituere (filiorum) orbitati,” Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 228: “horum uxores cum viderent exsilio additam orbitatem,” Just. 2, 4, 4: “maximā orbitate rei publicae virorum talium,” at a time when the state is greatly in want of such men, Cic. Fam. 10, 3, 3.—In plur.: “orbitates liberūm,” Cic. Tusc. 5, 6, 16; 5, 9, 24; 3, 24, 58; Lact. 1, 21, 11; Sol. 40, 44; Arn. 5, 188.—
II. Transf., in gen., a deprivation or loss of a thing (post-Aug.): luminis (of an eye), Plin. 7, 37, 37, § 124: “tecti,” id. 35, 3, 6, § 17.—Absol., blindness, App. M. 8, 12 fin.
