or Locri Epizephyrii, (anc. geog.), a town of the Brutii, on the Ionian sea; a colony of the Locri Ozolae (Strabo); rather of the Epicnemidii (Virgil), who calls it Naryx Locri, from Naryx a town of the Locri Epicnemidii. 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 Areopagites, 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 (Aelian, Val. Maximus.)

the district or territory of Locri in the Brutii in Italy.

country of Achaia in Greece; twofold, and divided by mount Parnassus. The Hither was occupied by the Locri Ozolae, called also Zephyrii, or Western, contained between Aetolia and Phocis, beginning at Naupactum, and running in a narrow slip of land, scarce 200 stadia, along the sea to the borders of the Phocenses. The Farther Locri lay beyond Parnassus, running out towards Thermopylae, and reaching to the Euripus of Euboea; occupied by the Locri Opuntii, who dwelt on the Euboean sea; and the Epicnemidii, who occupied mount Cnemis (Strabo); and these two were the Eastern Locri.

LOCUS GEOMETRICUS, denotes a line by which a local or indeterminate problem is solved.

A locus is a line, any point of which may equally solve an indeterminate problem. Thus if a right line suffice for the construction of the equation, it is called locus ad rectum; if a circle, locus ad circumflexum; if a parabola, locus ad parabolam; if an ellipse, locus ad ellipsis: and so of the rest of the conic sections.