Crossword-Solution: LAOCOON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Laocoon | n. | A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) |
| Laocoon | n. | 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. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “LAOCOON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Distant relative of mine who issued a warning about the Trojan horse | 1 answer |
| Greek killed by sea serpents. | 1 answer |
| He struck the Trojan Horse—and serpents destroyed him. | 1 answer |
| Priest of Apollo. | 1 answer |
| Priest who warned against the Trojan horse | 1 answer |
| Priest who warned the Trojans not to accept the wooden horse | 1 answer |
| Sea-serpent victim in Vatican statue. | 1 answer |
| Statue in the Vatican. | 1 answer |
| Trojan who distrusted the Wooden Horse and was killed by serpents. | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with LAOCOON (5)
The _Sack of Ilium_ 1113 as analysed by Proclus was very similar to Vergil’s version in _Aeneid_ ii, comprising the episodes of the wooden horse, of Laocoon, of Sinon, the return of the Achaeans from Tenedos, the actual Sack of Troy, the division of spoils and the burning of the city.
But at this very time two serpents appeared and destroyed Laocoon and one of his two sons, a portent which so alarmed the followers of Aeneas that they withdrew to Ida.
Great ropes of wild vine twined like the snake of the laocoon from tree to tree, and all sorts of wonderful flowers, from the orchid shaped like a butterfly to the scarlet hibiscus, made beautiful the gloom.
The four boys gave a fine imitation of the Laocoon group complicated by an extra figure frantic splutterings and chokings, strange cries and stranger words issued from this tangle; hands dipped lavishly into the inexhaustible reservoir of tar, with more and more picturesque results.
Yea, and they had obeyed him, and had 'scaped Destruction; but Athena, fiercely wroth With him, the Trojans, and their city, shook Earth's deep foundations 'neath Laocoon's feet.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1948–2002).