AMPHISSA, in Ancient Geography, the capital of the Locri Ozole, 120 stadia (or 15 miles) to the west of Delphi, (Pausanias). So called, because surrounded on all sides by mountains, (Stephanus). Hence Amphissæi, 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 Rocelia. Amphissius the epithet, (Ovid).