ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dicterium (a witty saying, bon-mot), of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…I took a snatch where I could get it; nay more, I railed at marriage downright, and in a public auditory, when I did interpret that sixth Satire of Juvenal, out of Plutarch and Seneca, I did heap up all the dicteries I could against women; but now recant with Stesichorus…”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton, 1632
Lexicophilia 