I.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.
