AMPHISSA (anc. geog.), the capital of the Locri Oxole, 120 stadia (or 15 miles) to the west of Delphi, (Pausanias.) So called, because surrounded on all hands by mountains, (Stephanus.) Hence Amphissei, 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 Recellia. Amphissus the epithet, (Ovid.)