philippic
Example Sentences
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To write a scurrilous attack, such as the second Philippic, is a bad exercise for the ingenuity of a great man; but so is any anonymous satire.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
Alcibiades is replaced by the Mark Antony of Cicero's Philippic.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
If he be blamed because his Philippic was anonymous, how do the anonymous writers of to-day escape?
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
He himself goes to Puteoli, and there he writes the second Philippic.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
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