Boeotus

Boeōtĭa, ae, f., = Boiôtia.

I.

Bœotia, a district of Greece proper, whose capital was Thebes, the birthplace of Bacchus and Hercules, Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 25; Cic. N. D. 3, 19, 49; Ov. M. 2, 239; Mel. 2, 3, 4; acc. to fable, so called either after Apollo's cow (Bous), Ov. M. 3, 13, or from Bœotus, the son of Neptune, Hyg. Fab. 186.—Its inhabitants were noted for their stupidity, Cic. Fat. 4; Nep. Alcib. 11, 3; id. Epam. 5, 2; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 244; Liv. 42, 43 sqq.; Tert. Anim. c. 20; cf. the Comm. upon Aelian. Var. H. 13, 25; Schol. Apoll. Rhod. Argon. 3, 1241.—

B.

Derivv.

1.

Boeōtĭus, a, um, adj., = Boiôtios, Bœotian:

Bacis,

Cic. Div. 1, 18, 34:

vates,

id. ib. 2, 26, 56:

Neo,

Liv. 44, 43, 6:

Haemon,

Prop. 2, 8, 21:

moenia = Thebae,

Ov. M. 3, 13:

Thyas,

Val. Fl. 5, 80.—In plur.: Boeōtii, ōrum, m., the Bœotians, Nep. Alcib. 11, 3; Liv. 33, 1, 1; Plin. 10, 21, 24, § 49.—

2.

Boeōtus, a, um, adj., = Boiôtos, Bœotian ( poet. ):

tellus = Boeotia,

Ov. M. 12, 9:

flumina,

Stat. Th. 7, 424:

urbes,

id. ib. 4, 360:

duces,

Luc. 3, 174:

Orion,

Ov. F. 5, 493.—In plur.: Boeōti, ōrum, m., the Bœotians, Liv. 33, 29, 1 sq.; 42, 43, 5 sq. al.:

Boeotūm = Boeotorum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 244; Avien. Orb. Terr. 586; Prisc. Perieg. 428.—

3.

Boeōtĭcus, a, um, adj., = Boiôtikos, Bœotian:

frumentum,

Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66:

cucumis,

id. 19, 5, 23, § 68:

napus,

id. 19, 5, 25, § 76.—

4.

Boeōtis, ĭdis, f., = Boiôtis = Bœotia, Mel. 2, 3, 4.—

II.

The wife of Hyas, and mother of the Pleiades, Hyg. Astr. 2, 21.—

III.

The Bœotian woman, the name of a lost comedy of Plautus, Gell. 3, 3, 3.