Locri
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Alope · Locri Epizephyrii · Locris · Thronium
spoken of as
2 expressionsLocris2 mentions
Hellenica (Greek) · History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
but Gylis, the polemarch, withdrew with the army to Phocis and from there made an invasion of Locris.
Thronium and Alope“Locris”1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
defeating also, in a battle at Alope, those of the Locrians who had come to the rescue.
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A place named in the narrative of Gylippus's relief of Syracuse and the wider Sicilian and Attic campaigns.
GYLIPPUS and Pythen, after refitting their ships, sailed along the coast from Tarentum to Locri Epizephyrii.
After this they came to Locri, and while lying at anchor there, one of the merchantmen from the Peloponnese put in to shore, carrying a heavy-armed band of Thespians.
The following day, having put their men on board, they coasted along, touching at all the cities, excepting Locri, until they came to Petra in the Rhegian territory.
Hellenica
Region invaded by Gylis's forces after Coronea, where the Lacedaemonian retreat proves costly.
but Gylis, the polemarch, withdrew with the army to Phocis and from there made an invasion of Locris.
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 since darkness was coming on and, as they were retiring from the pursuit, some of them fell on account of the roughness of the country, others because they could not see what was ahead of them, and still others from the missiles of the enemy, under these circumstances Gylis, the polemarch, and Pelles, one of his comrades, were slain, and in all about eighteen of the Spartiatae, some by being s …