Archelaus
bishop of CARRHA in Mesopotamia.
Works
Dispute with Manes
In A. D. 278, he held a public dispute with the heretic Manes, an account of which he published in Syriac. The work was soon translated both into Greek and into Latin. (Socrates, II. E. i. 22; Hieron. de Vir. Illustr. 72.)
Editions
Latin Editions
A large fragment of the Latin version was published by Valesius. in his edition of Socrates and Sozomen.
Greek and Latin editions
The same version, almost entire, was again printed, with the fragments of the Greek version, by Zaccaignius, in his Collcet. Monument. Vet., Rom. 1698, and by Fabricius in his edition of Hippolytus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.