ARCHIAS, AULUS LICINIUS, Greek poet, was born at Antioch in Syria 120 B.C. In 102 B.C. he came to Rome, where he obtained the patronage of Lucullus, whose gentile name he assumed. In 93 he received the citizenship of Heracleia, one of the federate towns, and indirectly, by the provisions of the lex Plautia Papiria, that of Rome. In 61 he was accused of having assumed the citizenship illegally; and Cicero successfully de fended him in his speech Pro Archia. This speech, which fur nishes nearly all the information concerning Archias, states that he had celebrated the deeds of Marius and Lucullus, and that he was engaged upon a poem on the events of Cicero's consulship. The Greek Anthology contains 35 epigrams under the name of Archias, but it is doubtful how many of these (if any) are the work of the poet of Antioch.