Boactes
Βοάκτης
Boactes (Βοάκτης,tol. 3.1.3), a river of Liguria, mentioned only by Ptolemy, who describes it as a confluent of the Macra or Magra: hence it may safely be identified with the Vara, the only considerable tributary of that stream, which rises in the mountains at the back of Chiavari, and flows through a transverse valley of the Apennines till it joins the Magra about 10 miles from its mouth.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.