Mercury

Roman messenger god, son of Jupiter and Maia, identified with the Greek Hermes and called "Cyllene's god" and "Caduceus-Bearer" by the poets. In the Aeneid Jupiter sends him twice to tear Aeneas from Carthage; in Ovid he lulls and beheads Argus, turns the spy Battus and the envious Aglauros to stone, and visits Baucis and Philemon with Jove. His tools are the winged sandals, the brimmed hat and the sleep-giving wand.