affātus

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.