boiae

• a collar for the neck, κλοιός (orig. of leather; hence the name; but later of wood or iron), Fest. p. 29; Isid. Orig. 5, 27, 12: boia κλοιός, Gloss. Vet.: pedicae boiae, Plaut. As. 3, 2, 5 (549): attrita boiis colla, Prud. Psych. praef. 34.—For boiam terere, v. Boii fin.

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. Vesp. 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).

(κλοιός). A collar of wood or iron put on the necks of slaves or criminals as a punishment. See the pun in Plaut. Capt. iv. 2. 109