or LOCRI Epizephyrii, in Ancient Geography, a town on the Ionian sea near the promontory Zephyrium. The people were called Locri and Locrenses, and are said to be the first who used a code of written laws, compiled by Zaleucus from the laws of the Cretans and others.

the district or territory of the Locri.

a country of Achaia in Greece; twofold, and divided by Mount Parnassus. The Hither was occupied by the Locri Ozoile, called also Zephyrini, or Western, contained between Aetolia and Phocis. The Farther Locri lay beyond Parnassus, running out towards Thermopylae, and reaching to the Euripus of Euboea; occupied by the Locri Opuntii, and Epimenidii, who were called 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 circulum; if a parabola, locus ad parabolam; if an ellipsis, locus ad ellip- fin: and so of the rest of the conic sections.