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