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Dicte

Dicte · f

a mountain in the eastern part of Crete

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Where it lives

de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 0.9/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Dictē — Lewis & Short

Dictē, ēs, f., *di/kth,

I 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: 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.—

B 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.

In the wild

Dictaque Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.335
Dicta Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.120
Dicta Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.2
Dicta Ovid, Fasti 4.863
Dicta Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.527
Dicta Seneca, De Clementia 1.24.1

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. dicté (scan p. 197; entry #3072).

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