The corpus record — Latin

Dictys

Dictys · m

A mariner changed by Bacchus into a dolphin

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k

What it meant

1. Dictys — Lewis & Short

Dictys, ўos, m., *di/ktus.

I A mariner changed by Bacchus into a dolphin, Ov. M. 3, 615.—

II A centaur, slain at the wedding of Pirithoüs, Ov. M. 12, 334 sq.—

III A fisherman on the island of Seriphos, who saved Perseus from drowning, Stat. S. 2, 1, 95.—

IV Dictys Cretensis, the traditional author of a mythical history of the Trojan war, in Greek; preserved to us in the Latin translation of L. Septimius, v. Teuffel, Roem. Lit. § 416, 1-4.

2. dictus — Lewis & Short

dictus, a, um,

Part., from 2. dico.

3. dictus — Lewis & Short

dictus, ūs, m.2. dico,

I a saying, speech, Aur. Vict. epit. 14.

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