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1 Dicte
Dictē, ēs, f., Diktê, 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.—II.Derivv.,A.Dictaeus, a, um, adj., Dictaean, among poets for Cretan:B.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.—dictamnus, i, f., or dic-tamnum, i, n., 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.
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