[1] In 278 AD, he held a public dispute with a number of Manichaeans -- that is, followers of Mani -- an account of which he published in Syriac.
:[2][3] The acts of disputation of Archelaus, bishop of Cashar in Mesopotamia, with the heresiarch Manes (1871).
For a long time, the Acts functioned as an essential source for Mani's life and Manichaeism.
[6][7] A large fragment of the Latin version was published by Henri Valois in his edition of Socrates and Sozomen.
1698, and by German classical scholar Johann Albert Fabricius in his edition of Hippolytus of Rome.