ARRIA, in Roman history, the wife of Caecina Paetus. When her husband was implicated in the conspiracy of Scriboni anus against the Emperor Claudius (A.D. 42) and condemned to death, she resolved not to survive him. She accordingly stabbed herself with a dagger, which she then handed to him with the words, "Paetus, it does not hurt" (see Pliny, Epp. iii. 16; Mar tial i. 14; Dio Cassius lx. 16). Her daughter, also called Arria, was the wife of Thrasea Paetus. When he was condemned to death by Nero, she would have imitated her mother's example, but was dissuaded by her husband. She was sent into banish ment (Tacitus, Annals xvi. 34; Pliny, Epp. iii. II ; ix. 13).