Locrians
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On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
'But we see the gods present, as Postumius did at Regillus, Vatinius on the Salarian road' — and I know not what too about the battle of the Locrians at the Sagra.
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Locrian peoples (Opuntian and Ozolian) who appear across the Pentecontaetia as subjects, dispossessed parties, and allies of the Boeotian exiles.
and the Athenians received them, on the strength of the hatred they now felt for the Lacedaemonians, and settled them at Naupactus, which they had lately taken from the Locri Ozolae who held it.
But as they were on their march, the Boeotian exiles from Orchomenus, and with them some Locrians and exiles of the Euboeans, and all that were of the same views, attacked them at Coronea, and, having defeated them in battle, slew some of the Athenians, and took others of them alive.
while the Athenians, on the sixty-second day after the battle, marched, under the command of Myronides, against the Boeotians, and having defeated them in an engagement at oenophyta, made themselves masters of the country of Boeotia and Phocis, and demolished the wall of the Tanagraeans, and took from the Opuntian Locrians their richest hundred men as hostages, and finished their own long walls.
On the Nature of the Gods
A Greek people whose victory at the Sagra was reportedly known instantly at a distant location.
And again, when the Locrians had overcome the men of Croton in a great battle at the river Sagra, it is recorded that on that very day the news of that fight was heard at the Olympic games.
'But we see the gods present, as Postumius did at Regillus, Vatinius on the Salarian road' — and I know not what too about the battle of the Locrians at the Sagra.
On Moral Ends
A people among whom Plato sought out Pythagorean philosophers
Why to the rest of the Pythagoreans — Echecrates, Timaeus, Arion, to the Locrians — that, when he had expressed Socrates, he might join the discipline of the Pythagoreans, and learn those things which Socrates rejected?
Against Timocrates
A community praised for preserving old laws and strictly testing new legislation.
I should like, gentlemen of the jury, to give you a description of the method of legislation among the Locrians.
And that, according to the story, is the only new statute adopted by the Locrians for more than two hundred years.
In very truth they are not bold enough to propose new laws, but punctually obey the old ones. And, during quite a long series of years, we are told, gentlemen of the jury, that they have enacted only one new statute. They had a law in that country that, if any one destroyed his neighbor’s eye, he must submit to the destruction of one of his own eyes; and there was no alternative of a fine. The sto …
On the False Embassy
Greek people mentioned in contrast to Philip as potential parties to a settlement.
A convention between Philip and the Phocians, it says, not between the Thebans and the Phocians, or the Thessalians and the Phocians, or the Locrians, or any other of the nationalities then present.
Shield of Heracles
Locrian fighters, noted for hand-to-hand combat, who join Amphitryon's punitive expedition.
With him went the horse-driving Boeotians, breathing above their shields, and the Locrians who fight hand to hand, and the gallant Phocians eager for war and battle.
Iliad
Lightly armed Achaean contingent fighting with bows and slings from behind the main line.
The others, therefore, with their heavy armor bore the brunt of the fight with the Trojans and with Hektor, while the Locrians shot from behind, under their cover;
The Boeotians and the Ionians with their long tunics, the Locrians, the men of Phthia, and the famous force of the Epeans could hardly stay Hektor as he rushed on towards the ships, nor could they drive him from them, for he was as a wall of fire.
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Greek people cited as an example of perfidious literal evasion of an oath.
It was a foolish act of perfidy therefore in the Locrians, when they promised they would adhere to their engagements as long as they stood upon that soil, and bore those heads upon their shoulders, in order to evade their promise to cast away the mould, which they had previously put within their shoes, and the heads of garlick, which they had laid upon their shoulders.
Olympian
The people of Opus/Locris, whose mother-city is glorified by Epharmostus's garlands, and whose stone-born origin is traced to Pyrrha and Deucalion.
From there the choicest garlands glorify the famous mother-city of the Locrians with her splendid trees.
But lend your tongue to the city of Protogeneia, where, by the ordinance of Zeus with the flashing thunderbolt, Pyrrha and Deucalion came down from Parnassus and made their first home, and without the marriage-bed they founded a unified race of stone offspring, and the stones gave the people their name, Arouse for them a clear-sounding path of song;
Ichneutae
The Locrians are a people Apollo visits while searching for the stolen cattle.
I have gone to visit the whole nation of the Locrians, those who inhabit Opus, those in Ozolis, those in Knemis by the Cephisus.
Hellenica
The Opuntian and Ozolian Locrian peoples, coalition members who later attack the retreating Lacedaemonian force under Gylis.
Those who were now drawn up against Agesilaus were the Boeotians, Athenians, Argives, Corinthians, Aenianians, Euboeans, and both the Locrian peoples;
but when it was towards evening and they were withdrawing, the Lacedaemonians being in the rear, the Locrians followed after them throwing stones and javelins.
but as for horsemen, there were of the Boeotians (since the Orchomenians were not present) about eight hundred, of the Athenians about six hundred, of the Chalcidians from Euboea about one hundred, and of the Opuntian Locrians about fifty.