Author
Arria the Elder is documented in Fuller’s books. No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
No datable encounters with Elder, Arria the have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“had made the Roman matron truly say of her death wound, "It is not painful, Paetus.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Well-known anecdote of Arria's death recorded by Pliny the Younger (Epistles III.16) and Martial
“had made the Roman matron truly say of her death-wound, "It is not painful, Poetus.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Famous Roman anecdote "Paete, non dolet" attributed to Arria, wife of Caecina Paetus, recorded by Pliny the Younger