fraudātĭo, ōnis, f. [fraudo], a cheating, deceiving, defrauding, deceit, fraud (rare but class.): ex hac parte pudor pugnat, illinc petulantia: hinc fides, illinc fraudatio, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 25: VT INTER BONOS BENE AGIER OPORTET ET SINE FRAVDATIONE, an old legal formula in Cic. Off. 3, 17, 70: QVI FRAVDATIONIS CAVSA LATITARIT, Edict. ap. Cic. Quint. 19, 60: QVAE FRAVDATIONIS CAVSA GESTA ERVNT, etc., Edict. in Dig. 42, 8, 1: qui ad eri fraudationem callidum ingenium gerunt, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 9.