the capital of the Locri Osci, 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 *Amphissiotes*, the inhabitants; who plundered the temple at Delphi, (Demosthenes.)—Also a town of Magna Graecia, at the mouth of the Sagra, on the coast of the Farther Calabria, situated between Locri and Caulonia; now called Roccella. *Amphissius* the epithet, (Ovid.)