Dictæ

and Dictæus mons , a mountain of Crete. The island is often known by the name of Dictæa arva . Virgil , Eclogues , poem 6; Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 171 .――Jupiter was called Dictæus , because worshipped there, and the same epithet was applied to Minos. Virgil , Georgics , bk. 2 , li. 536 .— Ovid . Metamorphoses , bk. 8 , li. 43 .— Ptolemy , bk. 3 , ch. 17 .— Strabo , bk. 10 .