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ADULE

Volume 8 · 73 words · 1810 Edition

or Adulis, in Ancient Geography, 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 Alatus at Rome in 1631, and to be found in Spon and Thevenot: or, Adulicus; as, Adulicus Sinus, a part of the Red Sea.