laocoon

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{i} (Greek Mythology) priest of Apollo during the Trojan war who was killed together with his two sons by two sea snakes for having warned his people of the Trojan horse
(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