Brewer's: Locrin

or Locrine (2 syl.). Father of Sabrina, and eldest son of the mythical Brutus, King of ancient Britain. On the death of his father he became king of Loegria (q.v.). (Geoffrey: Brit. Hist., ii. 5.)

Virgin daughter of Locrine Sprung from old Anchises' line,

Milton: Comus, 942-3.

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