Philippics
/ (fɪˈlɪpɪks) /
Demosthenes' orations against Philip of Macedon
Cicero's orations against Antony
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How to use Philippics in a sentence
Herennius cut off his head and the hands, pursuant to the command of Antonius, with which he wrote the Philippics.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey StewartHe wrote like a modern Demosthenes, with all political New York to quiver under his Philippics.
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed | Edna FerberRising abruptly, therefore, he broke out at once in one of the plainest Philippics of the sea.
Miles Wallingford | James Fenimore CooperThey were political Philippics, inspired chiefly by a reckless, undiscriminating spirit of attack.
Recollections of a Varied Life | George Cary EgglestonIt should hardly have been named one of the Philippics, which title might well have been commenced with the second.
The Life of Cicero | Anthony Trollope
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