Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Boiae

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BOI'AE. Probably identical with the Greek κλοιοί, which was a large wooden collar, put round the neck of mischievous dogs (Xen. Hell. ii. 4. 41.); whence the Romans applied the word, in a similar sense, to a collar of wood or iron put round the neck of slaves and criminals. Plaut. As. iii. 2. 5. Id. Capt. iv. 2. 109. Prudent. Praef. Psych. 34. Hieron. 5. in Hierem. 27.