Editing Boii (section)

===Livy===
In volume 21 of his ''[[Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Livy)|History of Rome]]'', [[Livy]] (59 BC – 17 AD) claims that it was a Boio man that offered to show Hannibal the way across the [[Alps]].
{{blockquote|When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, [[Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC)|Scipio]] could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into [[Italy]], or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called [[Magalus]], diverted from an immediate engagement; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.<ref>{{cite book|author=Livy|author-link=Livy|title=The History of Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLM5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA727|year=1868|publisher=Bell}}</ref>}}