I.a speaking to or addressing, address (class. only in the poets; “later also in prose): quo nunc reginam ambire furentem Audeat adfatu?” Verg. A. 4, 284: “adfatus reddere,” Stat. S. 2, 4, 7; Sen. Med. 187: “ora solvere ad adfatus,” Sil. 17, 340 al.—In prose, Cod. Just. 5, 4, 23; Cod. Imp. Leo, 1, 26, 6 al.
affātus (better adf- ), ūs, m. adfari,