Bŏvĭānum, i, n., = Βοΐᾶνον, the name of two towns in Samnium.
I The principal place of the Pentri , now Boiano , Cic. Clu. 69, 197; Liv. 9, 28, 2 and 3; 9, 31, 4; 10, 43, 15; in Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107, with the appel. Vetus, to distinguish it from,
II Bovianum Undecumanorum, prob. a place in the neighborhood of the preceding , occupied by the veterans of the eleventh legion , Plin. l. l.
III —Hence, Bŏvĭānĭus , a, um, adj., of Bovianum : castra, Sil. 9, 566.
IV — Bŏvĭā-nus , a, um, adj.: ager, Gromat. Vet. p. 259, 23.