Arria

• the wife of Paetus, distinguished for her magnanimity, Mart. 1, 14; Plin. Ep. 3, 16; Tac. A. 16, 34.

1. The wife of Caecina Paetus. When her husband was ordered by the emperor Claudius to put an end to his life, A. D. 42, and hesitated to do so, Arria stabbed herself, handed the dagger to her husband, and said, "Paetus, it does not pain me." (Plin. Ep. 3.16; D. C. 60.16; Martial. 1.14; Zonaras, 11.9.)

2. The daughter of the preceding, and the wife of Thrasea, who was put to death by Nero, A. D. 67. (Tac. Ann. 16.34.)

3. A Platonic female philosopher (Galen, de Ther. ad Pison. 100.2. vol. ii. p. 485, ed. Basil.), to whom Menagius supposes that Diogencs Laertius dedicated his lives of the philosophers. (Menagius, Histor. Mulier. Philosopharum, 100.47.)

first the wife of Domitius Silus and afterwards of Piso, who conspired against Nero, A. D. 66. (Tac. Ann. 15.59.)

The name Arrius does not occur till the first century B. C., but is rather common under the emperors. The coins of this gens which are extant, of which a specimen is given below, bear the name Q. Arrius Secundus; but it is quite uncertain who he was. On the reverse is a spear between a crown of laurel and a kind of altar. (Eckhel, v. p. 143.)

(1) See Paetus.

(2) See Thrasea.