Arria (Ar`ria) , a Roman matron, who, to encourage her husband in meeting death, to which he had been sentenced, thrust a poniard into her own breast, and then handed it to him, saying, “It is not painful,” whereupon he followed her example.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Arras * Ar`rian, Flavius