AMPHISSA, the capital of the Locri Oxolæ, one hundred and twenty stadia (or 15 miles) to the west of Delphi, (Pausanias.) So called, because surrounded on all hands by mountains, (Stephanus.) Hence Amphisæi, the inhabitants; who plundered the temple at Delphi, (Demosthenes.)—Also a town of Magna Græcia, at the mouth of the Sagra, on the coast of the Farther Calabria, situated between Locri and Caulona; now called Rocella. Amphissus the epithet, (Ovid.)