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Dictē | Dictaeus, a, um | dictamnus, i | dic-tamnum, i (noun F.f.n) : Δίκτη
* A mountain in the eastern part of Crete (now Sethia), in a cave of which Jupiter, acc. to fable, was concealed from Saturn, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 164.
* Derivv.
* Adj., Dictaean, among poets for Cretan: arva,Verg. A. 3, 171: saltus,id. ib. 4, 73: rura,Ov. M. 3, 2: greges,id. F. 5, 118: antrum,Verg. G. 4, 152: Nymphae,id. E. 6, 57: rex,i. e. Jupiter,id. G. 2, 536; also,Minos,Ov. M. 8, 43: Telestes,id. 9, 717: Dictaeae astra coronae,i. e. of Ariadne,Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 208: arundo, i. e. of the Cretans, who were famous archers, Sil. 13, 184; so, pennae,id. 15, 634.
* Or , , , the plant dittany, growing in great abundance on Mount Dicte and Mount Ida: Origanum dictamnus, Linn.; Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 97; 25, 8, 53, § 93; 26, 14, 87, § 142; Verg. A. 12, 412; Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 126.
* A mountain in the eastern part of Crete (now Sethia), in a cave of which Jupiter, acc. to fable, was concealed from Saturn, Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 164.
* Derivv.
* Adj., Dictaean, among poets for Cretan: arva,Verg. A. 3, 171: saltus,id. ib. 4, 73: rura,Ov. M. 3, 2: greges,id. F. 5, 118: antrum,Verg. G. 4, 152: Nymphae,id. E. 6, 57: rex,i. e. Jupiter,id. G. 2, 536; also,Minos,Ov. M. 8, 43: Telestes,id. 9, 717: Dictaeae astra coronae,i. e. of Ariadne,Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 208: arundo, i. e. of the Cretans, who were famous archers, Sil. 13, 184; so, pennae,id. 15, 634.
* Or , , , the plant dittany, growing in great abundance on Mount Dicte and Mount Ida: Origanum dictamnus, Linn.; Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 97; 25, 8, 53, § 93; 26, 14, 87, § 142; Verg. A. 12, 412; Cic. N. D. 2, 50, 126.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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