or **Adulis** (anc. geog.) a town of Egypt built by fugitive slaves, distant from its port on the Red Sea 20 stadia. Pliny calls the inhabitants *Adulites*. The epithet is either *Adulitanus*; as, *Monumentum Adulitanum*, on the pompous inscription of the statue of Ptolemy Euergetes, published by Leo Aelius at Rome in 1631, and to be found in Spon and Thevenot: Or, *Adulicus*; as *Adulicus Sinus*, a part of the Red Sea.