(from the article `Cato, Publius Valerius`) Valerius Cato was well respected in his time. Fellow poet Helvius Cinna praised his Dictynna (`Diana`), which seems to have been an erudite short ...
In Greek mythology, Dictynna was an epithet applied to the Cretan goddess, Britomartis, thought by some to mean 'lady of the nets', by others to mean ' she of mount Dicte'.
an ancient Cretan goddess of the sea.