Locri

, a town of Magna Græcia in Italy on the Adriatic, not far from Rhegium. It was founded by a Grecian colony about 757 years before the christian era, as some suppose. The inhabitants were called Locri or Locrenses . Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 399 — Strabo. — Pliny. — Livy , bk. 22 , ch. 6 ; bk. 23 , ch. 30 .――A town of Locris in ♦ Greece. ♦ ‘Greeee’ replaced with ‘Greece’