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Locris [loh-kris] EXAMPLES| noun either of two districts in the central part of ancient Greece. Liberaldictionary.com
Related formsLo·cri·an, noun, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for locrian Historical Examples of locrian
The Locrian virgins were sent there when the Persians were masters of the country.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3)
Strabo
He was a native of Himera in Sicily, but possibly a Locrian by descent.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)
John Addington Symonds
There are two heroes of this name, of whom one is a Locrian, while the other belongs to Salamis.
H. Munro Chadwick
Aias, the son of Telamon, is clearly a ‘doublet’ of the Locrian Aias; and so forth.
H. Munro Chadwick
Echecrates seems to have been the Locrian philosopher to whom Plato is believed to have gone for some of his early instruction.
The Best of the World’s Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) – Greece
Various
British Dictionary definitions for locrian Locrian Lokrian adjective of or relating to Locris, an ancient region of central Greece, or its inhabitants noun a native or inhabitant of Locris Locris Lokris noun an ancient region of central Greece Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
