Dictys

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

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.