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:

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.