Fraus

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In Roman mythology, Fraus was the goddess of personification of treachery and fraud.{{cite book|last=Leach|first=Marjorie|title=Guide to the Gods|year=1991|publisher=Greenwood|pages=643}}{{cite book|last1=Imel|last2=Imel|first1=Martha Anne|first2=Dorothy Myers|title=Goddesses in World Mythology|year=1993|publisher=Greenwood|pages=142}}George Richard Crooks, Alexander Jacob Schem, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ch8PAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22fraus%22+goddess&pg=PA379 A new Latin-English school lexicon], J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867, p379William Pulleyn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jzc-AAAAIAAJ&dq=fraus+goddess&pg=PA227 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, [https://archive.org/details/bibliothecaclas02ogilgoog/page/n715 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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7q0oAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22fraus%22+goddess&pg=PA440 Manual of Classical Literature], Frederick W. Greenough, 1839, p440Johann Joachim Eschenburg, [https://archive.org/details/classicalantiqu00eschgoog/page/n158 Classical antiquities], E.C. & J. Biddle, 1860, p122

Fraus is an alternative name for Mercury,{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} the god of theft (among other things). She is alternatively described as Mercury's helper.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}. Her Greek equivalent was Apate.