MINYÆ, a name given to the inhabitants of Orchomenos in Boeotia, from Minyas king of the country. Orchomenos the son of Minyas gave his name to the capital of the country; and the inhabitants still retained their original appellation, in contradiction to the Orchomenians of Arcadia. A colony of Orchomenians passed into Thessaly and settled in Iolchos; from which circumstance the people of the place, and particularly the Argonauts, were called Minyæ. This name they received, according to the opinion of some, not because a number of Orchomenians had settled among them, but because the chief and noblest of them were descended from the daughters of Minyas. Part of the Orchomenians accompanied the sons of Codrus when they migrated to Ionia. The descendants of the Argonauts, as well as the Argonauts themselves, received the name of Minyæ. They first inhabited Lemnos, where they had been born from the Lemnian women who had murdered their husbands. They were driven from Lemnos by the Pelasgi, about 1160 before the Christian era, and came to settle in Laconia, from whence they passed into Calliste with a colony of Lacedemonians. Miquelets, a name given to the Spaniards who inhabit the Pyrenean mountains on the frontiers of Arragon and Catalonia, and live by robbing.