Boiae
κλοιός
Boiae (κλοιός), a collar of wood or iron put on the neck of slaves or criminals as a punishment (Plaut. As. 3.2, 5; Capt. 4.2, 109; Prudent. Praef. Psych. 34; Jerome, v. in Hierem. 27; Isid. Orig. 5.27, 12). The Greek κλοιός, usually of wood, sometimes of iron (Babr. 99, 6), was: 1. A collar on the neck of a mischievous dog (Aristoph. Wasps 897; Xen. Hell. 2.4, 41). 2. A form of pillory (Xen. Hell. 3.3, 11; Eur. Cycl. 235; Luc. Tox. 32). 3. An ornamental collar of gold (Eur. Cycl. 184).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.