Lāŏcŏon

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, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 37.—Form Laucoön, Petr. 89.