af-for (better adf-), ātus, 1, v. dep. (used only in the
I pres. indic. , but not in first person sing.; in the perf. part. , the inf., and in the imper. , second person); in gen. only poet.: aliquem, to speak to , to accost , or address one : quem neque tueri contra neque affari queas, Att.ap. Macr. 6, 1: licet enim versibus eisdem mihi adfari te, Attice, quibus adfatur Flamininum ille, * Cic. Sen. 1: aliquem nomine, id. Brut. 72, 253; so id. ib. 3, 13; Verg. A. 3, 492: hostem supplex adfare superbum, id. ib. 4, 424: aliquem blande, Stat. Ach. 1, 251: ubi me adfamini, Curt. 4, 11: adfari deos, to pray to the gods , Att. ap Non. 111, 27; Verg. A. 2, 700: precando Adfamur Vestam, Ov. F. 6, 303: adfari mortuum, to bid farewell to the dead at the burial , to take the last adieu : sic positum adfati discedite corpus, Verg. A. 2, 644.—So also: adfari extremum, Verg. A. 9, 484.—
II Esp.. in augurial lang., to fix the limits of the auspices : effari templa dicuntur ab auguribus; adfantur qui in his fines sunt, Varr. L. L. 6, § 53 Müll. (where the pass. use of the word should be observed; cf. Ap. Met. 11, 19, 1 Elm.).