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Laocoön|leɪˈɒkəʊɒn|
Also Lacoon, Laocoon, Laokoon.
[ad. Gr. λαοκόων.]
The name of a legendary Trojan priest who, with his two sons, was crushed to death by two sea-serpents (Virgil Aeneid ii. 40–56, 199–231), used allusively, esp. with reference to statues representing him and his sons in their death-struggle. Freq. attrib.
1601P. Holland tr. Pliny's Hist. World xxxvi. v. 569 This may bee seene in the image of Laocoon..a peece of worke to be preferred..before all pictures or cast images. a1666Evelyn Diary an. 1644 (1955) II. 107 Above all that fountaine of the Laocoon..is a most glorious & surprizing object. 1699M. Lister Journey to Paris 143 The Atteliers or Work-houses of Two of the famous Sculptures Tuby; in which was a Lacoon Copied in White Marble. 1811B. R. Haydon Jrnl. 12 Jan. in Autobiogr. (1853) I. ix. 150 Went to the Academy in the evening, and saw the Laocoon placed out as it was four years ago. 1843Dickens Christmas Carol v. 153 Scrooge..making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. 1910H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly i. 11 If Mr. Polly..had been transparent..he might have realized, from the Laocoon struggle he would have glimpsed, that..he was not so much a human being as a civil war. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 172 Leave the fearful Laocoön of his fellow-man entangled in iron To its fearful fate. Ibid. 282 We have become..fatally entangled in the Laocoön coils of our conceit. 1938L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. viii. 108 The usual Chirico nightmare of marble Fathers of the City and laocoons in plaster. 1967I. Marder Paris Bit 84 She was draped like a female Laocoön in yards of inky black silk. 1970Sunday Times 18 Jan. 56/4 The old flexibility and flair may become Laocoön to the computers. |