Minos then desisted from pursuing her, and ordered the district to be called the Dictaean. (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 171 ; comp. britomartis.) [L. S.] DICTYNNA. [bbitomartjs.] DICTYS (ai/ctus), the name of three mythical personages. (Ov. Met. iii. 614, xii. 335 ; Apol?? lod. i. 9. ?? 6.) [L. S.] DICTYS CRETENSIS. The grammarians and other writers who belong to the decline of the Roman empire, misled pro