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Noricum/Panonian
Boii, Stater (silver coin replica) 2nd century BC.
An Imitation or Roman Republican Denarius of C. Hosidius (Hosidia 2).
OBV: Diad hd. of Diana r.
R: The wild boar of Calydon r. pierced by spear. In ex. BIATEC.
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia:
Boii is a name for
3 ancient Celtic
tribes living in:
The European
region of Bohemia most likely derives its name from the early Celtic
people known as the Boii.
Historians in the 19th
and earlier 20th
centuries also sometimes linked the Boii to the origins of the Bavarians
(Lat. Baioari), although that particular link is seldom accepted
today.
Despite the derivation of
the name, the ancient Boii should neither be confused with the
inhabitants of what it now the modern state of Bavaria
in Germany,
nor those of Bohemia in the Czech
Republic. An argument can be made for an early intermixing with Etruscans
from Italy;
however, the same argument can also be made for the Celtic
tribes in any area they inhabited.
Sometime between 205
and 184
BCE, T. Maccius Plautus
refers to the Boii in his work, Captivi.
"But now he is not a Sicilian--he is a Boian; he has got a Boian
woman."
Sometime between 100
and 44 BCE,
Caius Julius
Caesar refers to the Boii in his work, De Bello Gallico. "They
persuade the Rauraci,
and the Tulingi,
and the Latobrigi,
their neighbours, to adopt the same plan, and after burning down their
towns and villages, to set out with them: and they admit to their party
and unite to themselves as confederates the Boii, who had dwelt on the
other side of the Rhine,
and had crossed over into the Norican territory, and assaulted Noreia."
Sometime between 59
BCE and 17 CE,
in volume 21 of his work The History of Rome, Titus Livius (Livy)
says that it was a Boii that offered to show Hannibal
the way across the Alps.
"When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to
each general, 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 no where previously impaired." |
