I.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,” empty, widowed couch, Cat. 66, 21: “palmites,” bereft of buds, Col. 4, 27. —
(β).
With gen.: “orbus auxilique opumque,” Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 19: “pedum,” Lucr. 5, 840: “luminis,” Ov. M. 3, 518.
