Minyæ

, a name given to the inhabitants of Orc home nos in Bœotia, from Minyas king of the country. Orc home nos the son of Minyas gave his name to the capital of the country, and the inhabitants still retained their original appellation, in contradistinction to the Or cho men i ans of Arcadia. A colony of Or cho men i ans pa ed into The aly 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 Or cho men i ans had settled among them, but because the chief and noblest of them were descended from the daughters of Minyas. Part of the Or cho men i ans 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 years before the christian era, and came to settle in Laconia, from whence they pa ed into Calliste with a colony of Lacedæmonians. Hyginus , fable 14.— Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 6 .— A poll on i us , bk. 1 , Argonautic a .— Hero dot us , bk. 4 , ch. 145 .