dictynnia

DICTY´NNIA(δικτύννια), a festival with sacrifices, celebrated at Kydonia in Crete, in honour of Artemis, surnamed Δίκτυννα or Δικτύνναια, from δίκτυον, a hunter's net. (Diod. Sic. 5.76; compare Strabo, 10. p. 479; Paus. 2.30.3.) Particulars respecting its celebration are not known. Artemis Δίκτυννα was also worshipped at Sparta (Paus. 3.12.7), and at Ambrysos in Phocis. (Paus. 10.36.3; compare the Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran. 1284, Vesp. 357 and Meursius, Creta, 100.3.)