Laocoon

Synonyms for "laocoon" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
aesthetics treatiselaocoön group

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
laocoön sculpture

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
lessing treatisemythic figurepriest of troy

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

3 entries
aesthetics textmythological figuresculpture

More specific

4 entries
Lessing essayRoman copyTrojan prieststone statue

Collocations

6 entries
Hellenistic sculptureLaocoön and His SonsLaocoön groupLaocoön mythLaocoön statueRoman copy

Inflections

1 entries
Laocoöns

Derivations

1 entries
Laocoönian

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"Thus while they waver and, perplex with doubt, / urge diverse counsels, and in parts divide, / lo, from the citadel, foremost of a rout, / breathless Laocoon runs, and from afar cries out: / 'Ah! wretched townsmen! do ye think the foe / gone, or that guileless are their gifts? O blind / with madness! Thus Ulysses do ye know?'"

Source: tatoeba (6804543)

Laocoon, Neptune's priest, by lot ordained, / a stately bull before the altar slew.

Source: tatoeba (6814570)

Pale at the sight we fly; unswerving, these / glide on and seek Laocoon. First, entwined / in stringent folds, his two young sons they seize, / with cruel fangs their tortured limbs to grind.

Source: tatoeba (6814587)

Fresh wonder seized us, and we shook with fear. / All say, that justly had Laocoon died, / and paid fit penalty, whose guilty spear / profaned the steed and pierced the sacred side.

Source: tatoeba (6814593)

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