Editing Boii (section)

==The Boii in ancient sources==

===Plautus===
[[Plautus]] refers to the Boii in ''[[Captivi]]'':
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''At nunc Siculus non est, Boius est, Boiam terit''

(Translation:) But now he is not a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] – he is a Boius, he has got a Boia woman.}}

There is a play on words: ''Boia'' means 'woman of the Boii', also 'convicted criminal's restraint collar'.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Titus Maccius |last1=Plautus |title=Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi |first2=Paul, Translator |last2=Nixon |publisher=Gutenberg Project | year=2005 |orig-year=1916 |id=EBook No. 16564 |page=890 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16564}}</ref>

===Livy===
In volume 21 of his ''[[Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy)|History of Rome]]'', [[Livy]] (59 BC – 17 AD) claims that it was a Boio man that offered to show Hannibal the way across the [[Alps]].
{{blockquote|When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, [[Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC)|Scipio]] could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into [[Italy]], or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called [[Magalus]], diverted from an immediate engagement; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.<ref>{{cite book|author=Livy|author-link=Livy|title=The History of Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLM5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA727|year=1868|publisher=Bell}}</ref>}}

===Inscriptions===
In the first century BC, the Boii living in an [[oppidum]] of [[Bratislava]] minted [[Biatec]]s, high-quality coins with inscriptions (probably the names of kings) in Latin letters. At the oppidum of [[Oppidum of Manching|Manching]] there was a ceramic found bearing the labeling "Boius" or "Baius" which is being displayed at the local Celts and Romans museum.