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1113
Δικταῖον σπήλαιον
Dictaean cave
"Dictaean" means Cretan (from Crete's Mt Dicte:
Strabo
10.4.12), and more precisely it is an epithet of Zeus. The "Dictaean cave" is thus the one in which the newborn Zeus was hidden from his …
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1114
Δικτυεύς
net-man
e.g.
Strabo
8.7.2. For nets see delta 1115. [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (454). [2] This dative singular is presumably quoted from somewhere but attested only here.
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