Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Bavo
BAVO (Plin. iii. 26. s. 30), or BOA (Cod. Theod. 16. tit. 5. s. 53; also Boae, Amm. Marc. xxii. 3; Boia, Ant. Itin., p. 523, Wess.: Bua), an island off the coast of Dalmatia in Illyricum, used as a place of banishment under the emperors.