Fraus Explained

In Roman mythology, Fraus was the goddess of personification of treachery and fraud.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

She was daughter of Orcus and Night (Nyx).^[5] She was depicted with a woman's face, the body of a snake, and on her tail the sting of a scorpion.^{[2] [6] [7]}

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.

References

1. Book: Leach, Marjorie. Guide to the Gods. 1991. Greenwood. 643.
2. Book: Imel. Imel. Martha Anne. Dorothy Myers. Goddesses in World Mythology. 1993. Greenwood. 142.
3. George Richard Crooks, Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school lexicon, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867, p379
4. William Pulleyn, The etymological compendium: or, Portfolio of origins and inventions, W. Tegg, 1840, p227
5. John Lemprière, Lorenzo Da Ponte, John David Ogilby, Bibliotheca classica, W.E. Dean, 1838, p713
6. Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske, Manual of Classical Literature, Frederick W. Greenough, 1839, p440
7. Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Classical antiquities, E.C. & J. Biddle, 1860, p122