_Boduc or Boduoc on British Coins_.--The real name of the
heroic queen of the Iceni is very uncertain. Walther (Tacitus, xiv.
Ann. c. 31.), adopts Boudicea. It is probable enough that the
syllables Boduo may have formed a part of it, as pronounced by the
Britons. We are reminded of Boduognatus, leader of the Nervii,
mentioned by Cæsar. But to come nearer home, the name Boduogenus is
found upon a bronze vessel discovered in the Isle of Ely, described
by Mr. Goddard Johnson, _Archæologia_, xxviii. p. 436.