Locri

or Locri Epizephyrii (now Motta di Burzano ). A town of the Greek Locrians in Italy, on the southeast coast of the Bruttian peninsula. An important event in its history is the battle at the river Sagras, in which 10,000 Locrians and a few Rhegian auxiliaries defeated, with great carnage, an army of 130,000 Croton i ats. They were allies of the Romans against Pyrrhus; but after the battle of Cannæ, 210 B.C. , revolted to the Cart hag in i ans, and did not resume the yoke of Rome until 205 B.C. From this period Locri seems to have gradually declined in importance.