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AMPHISSA

Volume 2 · 71 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, the capital of the Locri Ozelis, 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 Graecia at the mouth of the Sagra, on the coast of the Farther Calabria, situated between Locri and Caulonia; now called Rocelia. Amphissius the epithet, (Ovid).