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Laocoon
La-oc′o-ön
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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] ]
1.
(Class. Myth.)
A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)
2.
(Sculp.)
A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.