Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.a people in Gallia Lugdunensis, now the Bourbonnais, Départ. de l'Allier, Caes. B. G. 1, 5; 1, 25; 1, 28; Liv. 5, 35, 2 et saep.; Plin. 4, 18, 32, § 107; 3, 15, 20, § 116; Tac. G. 28; their chief town, or, acc. to others, their country, was Boia , ae, f., Caes. B. G. 7, 14.—A part of the Boii went to Upper Italy, and occupied the region of the present Parma and Modena, Plin. 3, 17, 21, § 124; Liv. 5, 34 sqq.; 10, 26 sqq.; Front. Strat. 1, 2, 7.—Hence, Boicus ager dicitur, qui fuit Boiorum Gallorum. Is autem est in Galliă citra Alpes, quae togata dicitur, Fest. p. 30.—In Germany also they established themselves, and were called there Boiemi , Bohemi or Boihemi , or, by collective term, Boihaemum , i (Halm), the present Bohemians, Tac. G. 28; cf. Vell. 2, 109, 3.—In sing.: Boia , ae, f., a woman of the Boii, in a pun with boia, the sing. of boiae: “Boius est, Boiam terit,” Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 108.