LOCRI, or Locri Epizephyrii, (anc. geog.), a town of the Brutii, on the Ionian sea: a colony of the Locri Ozole (Strabo); rather of the Epinemidii (Virgil), who calls it Naryxii Locri, from Naryx a town of the Locri Epinemidii. The epithet Epizephyrii is from its situation near the promontory Zephyrium (Strabo); Locri and Locrenses, the people. They are said to be the first who used a code or body of written laws, compiled by Zaleucus from the laws of the Cretans, Lacedemonians, and the Arcopagitæ, adding an express penalty to each law, which was before discretionary, at the option of the judge (Strabo). Adultery was punished with the loss of both eyes. His own son being convicted of this crime; to maintain at the same time the authority of the law, and to pay some regard to the intercession of the people in favour of his son,
Zaleucus suffered the loss of an eye, his son losing another (Ælian, Val. Maximus.)