I.involved in debt, in bondage on account of debt (class.): “liber, qui suas operas in servitute pro pecuniā quādam debebat, dum solveret, nexus vocatur, ut ab aere obaeratus,” Varr. L. L. 7, § 105 Müll.: “tenuis et obaeratus,” Suet. Caes. 46.—Comp.: “quanto quis obaeratior, aegrius distrahebant,” the more deeply in debt, Tac. A. 6, 17.—
II. Subst.: ŏbaerā-tus , i, m., a person involved in debt, a debtor: obaeratos liberare, * Cic. Rep. 2, 21, 38: “Orgetorix omnes clientes obaeratosque suos eodem conduxit,” Caes. B. G. 1, 4; Liv. 26, 40, 17.