Usually means: Priest, warned against Trojan horse.
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Definitions from WordNet (Laocoon)

noun:  (Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them


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