Boeōtĭa — Lewis & Short
Boeōtĭa, ae, f., = *boiwti)a.
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 (*bou=s), 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., = *boiw/tios, 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., = *boiwto/s, 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., = *boiwtiko/s, Bœotian:
frumentum,Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 66:
cucumis,id. 19, 5, 23, § 68:
napus,id. 19, 5, 25, § 76.—
4 Boeōtis, ĭdis, f., = *boiwti/s = 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.