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Dictynna

Dictynna · f

The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos

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What it meant

Dictynna — Lewis & Short

Dictynna, ae, f., *di/ktunna.

I The nymph Britomartis, so called because, when pursued by Minos, she sprang into a net (di/ktuon; cf. Callim. Hymn. Dian. 189 sq.), Verg. Cir. 304.—

II An appellation of Diana, Ov. M. 2, 441; 5, 619; id. F. 6, 755; Tib. 1, 4, 25; Stat. Th. 9, 632.—Hence,

A Dictynnaeum (-nēum), i, n., a place sacred to the goddess Dictynna, near Sparta, Liv. 34, 38, 5.—

B Dictynnaeus mons (to\ *diktu/nnaion), a promontory on the N. W. coast of Crete, where a temple of Diana stood, now Cape Sparta, Plin. 4, 12, 20, § 60; Sol. 11, 6.—

III A city near the temple of Diana in Crete, Mel. 2, 7, 12.

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