a. and sb. [f. L. Locri-s + -AN.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to the Locri, a people of Greece, or to their country Locris. Locrian mode: an occasional appellation of one (not identified with certainty) of the ‘modes’ of ancient Greek music; in the Middle Ages applied arbitrarily to the 11th ecclesiastical mode. b. sb. One of the Locri; an inhabitant of Locris.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, II. 35. Aiax the lesse, Oileus Sonne, the Locrians led to warre.
1715. Pope, Iliad, II. 630. Fierce Ajax led the Locrian Squadrons on.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Locrian, in antient music, the seventh species of the diapason.
1835. Thirlwall, Greece, I. 99. The Locrians claimed a higher antiquity than any other branch of the Greek nation.
1836. J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., vi. (1852), 179. In the fact recorded of the Locrian legislator we find [etc.].
1880. Rockstro, in Grove, Dict. Mus., II. 158/1. Locrian Mode.
So † Locrensian [f. L. Locrensis].
1547. Becon, Agst. Adultery, iii. Homilies, I. xi. (1859), 130. Among the Locrensians the adulterers had both their eyes thrust out.
