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 416 BOIL Locris; Phocab; Anthedon; Isu8 probably at & little distance from the ooastf south of Anthedon ; Chalia; Salganeus; Mycalessus at a little distance from the coast; Aulis; Gekcas; Delium; imd lastly Oropus, which originally belonged to Boeotia, but was subsequently included in the ter- ritory of Attica. Along the Corinthian gulf from W. to E., Ciiob- 6EIA upon the frontiers of Phocis; Thisbe; Tiphae or Siphae; Creusis. Inland between Uie Corin- tliLnn gulf and the cities on the lake Gopais, also from W. to E., Hippotae; Ascra; CERESsusand DoNACON, bolii S. of Ascra; Thespiae; Eutresis, S. of Thespiac; Leuctra. Thebae was situated in the plain between the lake Hylica and Mt Teumessus. Near lake Hylica were Hylb; Trapiieia; Peteon and Schoenus. Between Thebes and the Euripus Teumessus; Glisas; Cnopia and Harsla. S. of Thebes, Pot- NiAB and Therafnae. In the valley of the Asopus, between Mt. Teu- messus and Attica from W. toE., Plataeae; Hr- SIAE; Erythrae; Scolus; Sidae; Eteonus or &>caepiie; Elbum; Tanagra; Puerae; Oeno- rilYTA. (The principal works on Boeotia are the Travels of Glarke, Holland, Hobhouse, Dodwell, Gell, Mure, and more especially of Leake and Ulrichs; K. 0. Mtiller, OrchomenoSj Breslau, 1844, 2nd ed., and the article Boeotien in Erscli and G ruber's Enctf- clopddie, vol. xi. ; Forchhammer, Hdlenika^ Berlin, 1837, a work of great value; Kruse, Hellas^ vol. ii. pt. i. : Raoul-Rochette, Sur la formej cfc. de Vetat federaUf det BeotienSj in Mem. de VAcad. des Inscr., vol. viii. p. 214, seq.; Kliitz, de Foedere BoeoticOj Berol. 1821 ; ten Breujel, de Foedere Boeotico, Groning. 1834; Koppius, Specimen hie- toricum exhibens hutoriam reipublicae Boeolorum, Groning. 1836.) COIN OF BOEOTl-l. BOII, a Celtic people who emigrated fi-om Trans- alpine Gaul to Italy in company with the Lingones (Liv. V. 35) by the pass of the Pennine Alps or the Great St. Bernard, Their original abode seems, therefore, to have been near the territory of the Lingones, who were between the upper Saone and the highest parts of the Seine and Mame. Those Boii who joined the Hclvetii in their march to the country of the Santones, had crossed the Rhine {B. G. i. 5), and it seems that they came from Germany to Join the Helvetii. After the defeat of the Hclvetii Caesar gave them a territory in the country of the Aedui B. G. i. 28, viL 9), which ter- ritory D'Anville supposes to be in the angle between the AUier and the Loire, The Boia of Caesar (vii. 14) may be the country of these Boii; if it is not, it is the name of a town unknown to us. Wale- kenaer places these Boii in the modem diocese of Auxerre (Autesiodurum), which he supposes to be part of their original territory that had been occu- pied by the Aedui. But this supposition is directly contradicted by the narrative of Caesar (£. G. vii. 9, 10, 11). The town of the Boii was Gergovia BOIL according to the common texts of Caesar, but the name is con*upt, and the site is unknown. No con- clusion can be derived as to the position of these Boii from the passage of Tadtus {Hist. ii. 61), ex- cept that they were close to the Aedui, which is known already. Pliny's enumeration (iv. 18), under Gallia Lugdunensi.s, of '* intus Hedui federati, Car- nuti federati, Boii, Senones, Aulerci," places the Boii between the Camutes and the Senones, and agrees with Walckenaer's conjecture; but this is not the position of the Boii of Caesar. The name Boii also occurs in the Antouine Itin. on the road from Aquae Augustae or Tarbellicae {Dax) to Bordeaux. The name is placed 16 Gallic leagues or 24 Roman miles from Bordeaux. These Boii are represented by the Buies of the Pays de Buchf or Bot^es J as Walckenaer calls them {Geog. &c. vol. i. p. 303). The name Boii in the Itin. ought to represent a place, and it is supposed by D'Anville that Tete de Buck, on the Bassin dArcachon^ may represent it; but he admits that the distance does not agree with the Itin. : and besides this, the Tete de Buck seems to lie too much out of the road be- tween Dax and Bordeaux, [G. L.] BOII, a p(H)ple of Cisalpine Gaul, who migiTited from Transalpine Gaul, as mentioned above. They found the plains N. of the Padus already occupied by the Insubres and Cenoroani, in consequence of which they crossed that river, and established them- selves between it and the Apennines, in the plains previously occupied by the Umbrians. (Liv. v. 35 ; Pol. ii. 17; Strab. iv. p. 195.) They are next men- tioned as co-operating with the Insubres and Senones in the destruction of Melpum, an event which was placed by Cornelius Nepos in the same year with the capture of Veii by Camillus, b. c. 396. (Com. Nop. ap. Plin. iii. 1 7 . s. 2 1 .) According to Appian ( Celt. 1), the Boii took part in the expedition of the Gauls into Latium in b. c. 358, when they were defeated by the dictator C. Sulpicius ; but Polybius repre- sents them as taking up arms against the Romans Tor the first time after the defeat and detraction of their neighbours the Senones. Alarmed at this event, they united their forces with those of the Etruscans, in b. c. 283, and were defeated together with them at the Vadimonian Lake. Kotwith- standing this disaster, they took up arms again the next year, but being a second time defeated, con* eluded a treaty with Rome, to which they appear to have adhered for 45 years, when the occupation by the Romans of the territory that ha<l been previously held by the Senones again alarmed them for their own safety, and led to the great Gallic wsr of b. c. 225, in which the Boii and Insubres were supported by the Gaesatae from beyond the Alps. (Pol. ii. 20 —-31.) Though defeated, together with their allies, in a great battle near Telamon in Etruria, and com- pelled soon after to a nominal submission, they still continued hostile to Rome, and at the commencement of the Second Punic War (b.c. 218) did not wait for the arrival of Hannibal, but attacked and defeated the Romans who were (bunding the new colony iif Placentia. (Pol. iii. 40; Liv. xxi. 25; Appian, Annib. 5.) The same year they supported Hannibal with an auxiliary force at the battle of the Trebia; and two years afteiivards they suddenly attacked the consul Postumius as he was marching through their territory with a force of 25,000 men, and entirely destroyed his whole army. (Pol. iii. 67 ; Liv. xxiii. 24.) Again, after the close of the Second Punic War, the Boii took a prominent part in the revolt of