Laocoon

[ La.ok´.o.on ], a Trojan priest, who, with his two sons, was crushed to death by serpents. Thomson, in his Liberty , iv., has described the group, which represents these three in their death agony. It was discovered in 1506, in the baths of Titus, and is now in the Vatican. This exquisite group was sculptured at the command of Titus by Age sander, Polydorus, and A the nod or us, in the fifth century B.C. —Virgil, Æneid , ii. 201-227.