Locri

Locri, a people of ancient Greece, divided into two distinct tribes, differing in customs and civilisation. The one, known as Loeri Epienemidii and Opuntii, dwelt on the mainland over against the island of Enbea, whilst the other, called Locri Ozole, lived on the northern shore of the Gulf of Corinth. The chief town of the eastern Locri was Opus, of the western Amphissa.—A colony from one or the other of these tribes founded (circa 710 B.C.) in South Italy the celebrated city of Loeri, which stood near the southern extremity of the Brutian peninsula. Locri was generally in opposition to Rome, first as the ally of the Syracusans, then of the Carthaginians. Excavations were carried out here in 1889-90.