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Philippics
/ fɪˈlɪpɪks /
plural noun
- Demosthenes' orations against Philip of Macedon
- Cicero's orations against Antony
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Example Sentences
Herennius cut off his head and the hands, pursuant to the command of Antonius, with which he wrote the Philippics.
From Project Gutenberg
He wrote like a modern Demosthenes, with all political New York to quiver under his philippics.
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Rising abruptly, therefore, he broke out at once in one of the plainest philippics of the sea.
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They were political philippics, inspired chiefly by a reckless, undiscriminating spirit of attack.
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It should hardly have been named one of the Philippics, which title might well have been commenced with the second.
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