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DICTYMNIA

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or **Dictynnia**, in Mythology, were feasts celebrated at Lacedaemon and in Crete, in honour of Diana Dictynnia or Dictynnia, or of a nymph taken for her, who, having plunged herself into the sea, to escape the passion of Minos, was caught in a fisherman's net or *λάστρον*, whence the name.