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Laocoon

Laocoon · m

a son of Priam and Hecaba, priest of the Thymbrean Apollo, who was killed, with his two sons, at the altar by two…

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Lāŏcŏon — Lewis & Short

Lāŏcŏon (Laucŏon), ontis, m., = *laoko/wn,

I a son of Priam and Hecaba, priest of the Thymbrean Apollo, who was killed, with his two sons, at the altar by two serpents, Verg. A. 2, 41; 201; Hyg. Fab. 135: sicut in Laocoonte, in the statue of Laocoon, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 37.—Form Laucoön, Petr. 89.

In the wild

Laocoön Vergil, Aeneid 2.201
Laocoön Vergil, Aeneid 2.41
Laocoonte Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.5.p9
Laocoon Petronius, Satyricon 89

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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