Philippic

Such are the First Philippic and the three orations for Olynthus.

Coolly drawing out his pocketbook, he threw down two hundred florins,—the usual fine,—and continued his philippic.

A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.

Cicero replied in the Second Philippic, one of the most violent invectives ever written.