philippic

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I will not treat my readers to any of these specimens of the art Philippic, but will confine myself to a few business excerpts instead, taken indiscriminately from the New York and Boston papers.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Then it was that he spoke the third Philippic, and in the evening of the same day he spoke the fourth to the people.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

Thus he ended his fourteenth Philippic, and the silver tongue which had charmed Rome so often was silent forever.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony

The Second Philippic also was not delivered but issued as a pamphlet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

In his Philippic Orations he gave full vent to his bitter hatred of Antony and so aroused the latter’s undying enmity.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly