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or Boa, -arum, in Ancient Geography, an island on the coast of Illyricum over against Tragurium. A place of banishment for condemned persons; now called Bug, an island in the Adriatic, joined to the continent and to Tragurium, now Tram, by a bridge.

Boa. See Ophiology Index.