Locrian in A Sentence

    1

    In the north the basin of the Cephissus and Lake Copais lies between parallel mountain-walls continuing eastward the line of Parnassus in the extensive ridge of Helicon, the "Mountain of the Muses" (5470 ft.) and the east Locrian range in Mts.

    2

    Monteleone is identical with the ancient Hipponium, said to be a Locrian colony and first mentioned in 388 B.C., when its inhabitants were removed to Syracuse by Dionysius.

    3

    The pretext was the contumacy shown by the Locrian town Amphissa to the rulings of the Amphictyonic Council.

    4

    Towards the north, opposite the Locrian territory, the highest peaks are Mts.

    5

    Viirtheim, De Ajacis Origine, Cultu, Patria (Leiden, 1907), according to whom he and Ajax Oileus, as depicted in epos, were originally one, a Locrian daemon somewhat resembling the giants.