Arrius

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Arrĭus,¹² ĭī, m., nom d’homme : Fest. 355.

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• Quintus Arrius, praetor in 73 BC, and apparently propraetor in the following year, during the Third Servile War. He inflicted a devastating defeat against Crixus, but was in turn defeated by Spartacus. He died while on his way to take up the government of Sicily.
• Quintus Arrius Q. f., a friend of Cicero, sought the consulship in 59 BC, but was unsuccessful.
• Gaius Arrius, a neighbor of Cicero at Formiae, whose persistent company in 59 BC proved to be a nuisance.
• Marcus Arrius Q. f. Secundus, triumvir monetalis in 41 BC.
• Arria, set an example for her husband, Caecina Paetus, whom Claudius had ordered to take his own life. Stabbing herself, she handed Paetus the dagger, claiming that the act caused her no pain.
• Arria, the daughter of Caecina Paetus and Arria, married Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, whom Nero had put to death in AD 67.
• Arria Galla, the wife of Domitius Silus, who quietly surrendered her to Gaius Calpurnius Piso, the conspirator against Nero.
• Arrius Varus, praetorian prefect in AD 69, following the death of Vitellius.
• Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, consul suffectus in AD 69, from the Kalends of July to the Kalends of September. He was a grandfather of Antoninus Pius.
• Marcus Arrius Diomedes, a citizen whose tomb was found at Pompeii. It is believed that the massive house down the road from the tomb was his house. He was probably descended from or was a freedman of the Arrii.
• Gnaeus Arrius Augur, consul in AD 121.
• Gnaeus Arrius Cornelius Proculus, governor of Lycia and Pamphylia from AD 139 to 141, and consul suffectus for the months of May and June in 145.
• Arria, a Platonic philosopher.
• Lucius Arrius Flavius Aper, praetorian prefect, and father-in-law of the emperor Numerian, whom Aper secretly murdered as the army was retreating from Persia in AD 284. Aper attempted to conceal the emperor's death, but when his deed was exposed, the soldiers acclaimed Diocletian emperor, and Aper was put to death.
• Arria L. f., wife of emperor Numerian