Orbona
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Orbonae Proper-name noun: feminine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: feminine vocative plural, Proper-name noun: feminine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: feminine dative singular of Orbona
- the tutelary goddess of parents bereft of their children, Cic. N. D. 3, 25, 63; cf. Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 16; Arn. 4, 131; Tert. ad Nat. 2, 14.
a female Roman divinity, to whom an altar was erected at Rome, near the temple of the Lares in the Via Sacra. She was invoked by parents who had been deprived of their children, and desired to have others, and also in dangerous maladies of children. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3.25; Plin. H.N. 2.7; Arnob. ad v. Gent. 4.7; Tertull. 2.14; P. Vict. Reg. Urb. x.) [L.S]
An ancient goddess of the Italians who slew children and thus made parents childless (orbi). She was invoked and propitiated in the indigitamenta (q.v.). See Cic. N. D. iii. 25, 63.