La·oc·o·ön prop. n.
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.
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Laocoon
n : (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the
Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they
wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the
Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around
Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them