Dictys, yos, m., Δίκτυς.
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, Röm. Lit. § 416, 1-4.