AMPHISSA, in Ancient Geography, the capital of the Locri Oxolæ, 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 Further Calabria, situated between Locri and Caulona; now called Rocelia. Amphissæus the epithet, (Ovid.)