Mithridatic Wars
In 62 BC, he was accused by a certain Grattius of having assumed the citizenship illegally, but Cicero successfully defended him in his speech "Pro Archia". That speech, which furnishes nearly all the information concerning Archias, states that he had celebrated the deeds of Gaius Marius and Lucullus in the Cimbrian and Mithridatic Wars and that he was engaged upon a poem of which the events of Cicero's consulship formed the subject.