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Arria

Wife of Caecina Paetus. When her husband was implicated AD 42 in a plot against the Roman emperor Claudius and condemned to death, she committed suicide.

Her daughter Arria was married to Thrasea Paetus, and when the latter was condemned to death by Nero AD 66 she intended to imitate her mother's example, but was dissuaded from doing so for the sake of her children.
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