Locri

May 16 — Stage — 9: Locri to Camigliatello Silano — 175km

Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: Back to the strada bianche at 2011 Giro 2010

As he tells it, the ruler the Romans installed in Locri, a rapacious fellow named Pleminius, proved a looter and a tyrant.

Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious 2009

When, for instance, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post recently, drumming up support for the revised, age-of-Obama American mission in Afghanistan, he just couldn't help starting off with an inspiring tale about the Romans and a small Italian city-state, Locri, that they conquered.

Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious 2009

About the same time the Athenian forces engaged in Sicily, sailing to the territory of Locri and there disembarking, defeated the Locrians who came out to meet them, and took a small garrison fort, which was situated upon the river Halex.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The Italian cities did not admit them within their walls, or open a market to them, but allowed them water and anchorage; Tarentum and Locri refused even these.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The first among the Westerns who spoke of the Trinity was Timæus of Locri, in his “Soul of the World.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

About this time Nicias was informed that the rest of the Corinthian fleet7 was on the point of arriving, and he sent twenty ships, which were ordered to lie in wait for them about Locri and Rhegium and the approach to

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Now the Euboeans had requested the Peloponnesians to send them a fleet,98 and just at this time two and forty ships, including Italian vessels from Tarentum and Locri and a few from Sicily, were stationed at Las in Laconia, and were making ready to sail to Euboea under the command of

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Nicias, when he heard that they were at Locri, although he had despised them at first, now sent out four Athenian ships to intercept them; but these had not as yet arrived at Rhegium, and came too late.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Then they came to Locri, and while they were at anchor there, one of the merchant-vessels from Peloponnesus sailed in, bringing some Thespian hoplites. 24 These the Syracusans took on board, and sailed homewards.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007