Gruppo del Laocoonte - probabile copia marmorea eseguita tra I secolo a.C. e I secolo d.C. di un originale bronzeo del 150 a.C. - Museo Pio-Clementino dei Musei Vaticani

Laocoön and His Sons - a probable marble copy executed between the 1st century BC and I century AD of an original bronze of 150 BC - Pio-Clementine Museum of Vatican Museums

 

Il gruppo statuario raffigura la fine di Laocoonte e dei suoi due figli Antifante e Timbreo mentre vengono stritolati da due serpenti marini

 

The statuary group depicts the end of Laocoonte and its two sons Antifante and Timbreo while being crushed by two sea serpents

 

With tongues flickering in their mouths red,

They like the twin killing stings in their head.

We fled away all bloodless for fear.

But with a braid to Laocoon to tear

They start attacking, and his two sons sing

First the other serpent latched on like a ring,

And with their cruel bite, and sting they fell,

Of tender limbs took many a sorry morsel;

Next they the priest invaded both to entwine,

Whence with his weapons did his body pine

His children for to help and rescue.

Both they about him looped in knots through,

And twice circled his middle round about,

And twice folded their scaly skin but doubt,

About his crown, both neck and head they scrag

 

Done