Philippics
Britishplural noun
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Demosthenes' orations against Philip of Macedon
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Cicero's orations against Antony
Example Sentences
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As relations with Mark Antony broke down, Cicero moved to open condemnation, delivering no fewer than fourteen Philippics* denouncing Antony.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
I will venture to quote from a contemporary his praise of the Philippics.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
But Cicero thundered against him in his famous Philippics; the Senate declared him a public enemy, and entrusted the conduct of the war against him to Octavianus and the consuls Hirtius and Pansa.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
The name, it should be understood, has been adopted from a jocular allusion by Cicero to the Philippics of Demosthenes, made in a letter to Brutus.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
They are documents, as indispensable as the Olynthiacs or Philippics, for his own political career.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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