I.to shade, shadow, overshadow, overspread, cover; to make or cast a shade (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
I. Lit.: “(quercus) Umbrabat coma summi fastigia montis,” Sil. 5, 488: “colles,” Stat. S. 4, 2, 36: “montes oleā,” i. e. to plant, Sil. 14, 24: “carchedonios purpureos,” Plin. 37, 7, 25, § 95 (dub.; “al. obumbrante): matrem (i. e. tellurem) rosarum floribus,” Lucr. 2, 629.—
II. Transf.: “tempora quercu,” Verg. A. 6, 772: “frontem umbrante capillo,” Sil. 1, 403: “dux umbratus rosis,” Claud. B. Gild. 444; id. VI. Cons. Hon. 164.—In a Greek construction: “umbratus tempora ramis,” Stat. Th. 6, 554: “umbratus genas,” i. e. covered with a beard, id. S. 3, 4, 79: “umbrata tempora galero,” Val. Fl. 4, 137: umbrantur somno pupulae, are shaded, i. e. covered, Varr. ap. Non. 172, 4: “telis diem,” to darken, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 122.—Absol.: “omnes paene virgae, ne umbrent, abraduntur,” cast a shade, Col. 5, 7, 2.
