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- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 16.34
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- ↑ Strunk, Tom (2017). History After Liberty: Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans. University of Michigan Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780472130207 . Retrieved 2023-05-02.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William (1870). "Arria (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 350.