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source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and
foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value
than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but
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Devoured by serpents
Laocoön and his sons from the Illiad. Laocoön was a Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Neptune), whose rules he defied, Athena became angry with him for warning the Trojans not to trust the horse, but to burn it. She sent two giant sea serpents to strangle and kill him and his two sons. The famous marble statute is attributed by Pliny the Elder to the sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and stands in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
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