Minerva sent two monstrous sea serpents from Tenedos to crush the priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus after he hurled a spear at the wooden horse and urged the Trojans to burn it.
⚠ Virgil (Aeneid 2.199-227) attributes the serpents to Minerva; the Bibliotheca (Epitome 5.17) attributes them to Apollo, punishing Laocoon for violating his priestly celibacy vow.
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