LAOCOON; LAOCOOEN

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.)

2.
n.

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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