La*oc"o*on (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. ]
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 Laocoon, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil.
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