. "In Lucan and in later prose, meton. for the beloved objects , the dear or loved ones : milites, quorum adfectus ( wives and children ; hence, adfectus publici, the judges" . "In Lucan and in later prose, meton. for the beloved objects , the dear or loved ones : milites, quorum adfectus ( wives and children ; hence, adfectus publici, the judges" . .