Aulus Licinius Archias

 (Greek: Ἀρχίας; fl. c. 120 – 61 BC) was a Graeco-Syrian poet.

Quotes

 * Οὐκέτι παφλάζοντα διαΐσσων βυθὸν ἅλμης δελφίς, πτοιήσεις εἰναλίων ἀγέλας, οὐδὲ πολυτρήτοιο μέλος καλάμοιο χορεύων  ὑγρὸν ἀναρρίψεις ἅλμα παρὰ σκαφίσιν οὐδὲ σὺ γ᾽, ἀφρηστά, Νηρηίδας ὡς πρὶν ἀείρων  νώτοις πορθμεύσεις Τηθύος εἰς πέρατα. 	ἦ γὰρ ἴσον; πρηῶνι Μαλείης ὡς ἐκυκήθη,  κῦμα πολυψάμμους ὦσέ σ᾿ ἐπὶ ψαμάθους.
 * No more to plunge through depths of bubbling sea, Startling the finny shoals that downward float Nor gambol to the reed-pipe’s melody,  Breaking the billows round the fisher’s boat! Child of the foam! fair mermaids clinging close  Shall cross on thee to ocean’s end no more: Huge as the Southern Cape a wave arose,  And hurled thee high upon the sandy shore.
 * Anthologia Palatina, vii, 214; "A Stranded Dolphin", as translated by A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1922), p. 46