In Roman mythology, Fraus was the goddess of personification of treachery and fraud.George Richard Crooks, Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school lexicon, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867, p379William Pulleyn, The etymological compendium: or, Portfolio of origins and inventions, W. Tegg, 1840, p227
She was daughter of Orcus and Night (Nyx).John Lemprière, Lorenzo Da Ponte, John David Ogilby, Bibliotheca classica, W.E. Dean, 1838, p713 She was depicted with a woman's face, the body of a snake, and on her tail the sting of a scorpion.Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske, Manual of Classical Literature, Frederick W. Greenough, 1839, p440Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Classical antiquities, E.C. & J. Biddle, 1860, p122
Fraus is an alternative name for Mercury, the god of theft (among other things). She is alternatively described as Mercury's helper.. Her Greek equivalent was Apate.
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