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AULIS, an ancient town in Boeotia on the Euripus, on a rocky peninsula between two bays, near the modern village of Vathy, about 3m. S. of Chalcis. It was the traditional starting-place of the Greek fleet before the Trojan War, the scene of the sacrifice of Iphigenia.