Template:For In Roman mythology, Fraus was the goddess of personification of treachery and fraud.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=giwm>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>George Richard Crooks, Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school lexicon, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867, p379</ref><ref>William Pulleyn, The etymological compendium: or, Portfolio of origins and inventions, W. Tegg, 1840, p227</ref>
She was daughter of Orcus and Night (Nyx).<ref>John Lemprière, Lorenzo Da Ponte, John David Ogilby, Bibliotheca classica, W.E. Dean, 1838, p713</ref> She was depicted with a woman's face, the body of a snake, and on her tail the sting of a scorpion.<ref name=giwm/><ref>Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Nathan Welby Fiske, Manual of Classical Literature, Frederick W. Greenough, 1839, p440</ref><ref>Johann Joachim Eschenburg, Classical antiquities, E.C. & J. Biddle, 1860, p122</ref>
Fraus is an alternative name for Mercury,Template:Citation needed the god of theft (among other things). She is alternatively described as Mercury's helper.Template:Citation needed. Her Greek equivalent was Apate.
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