philippic

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‘This splendid oration, in its fiery vigour and mastery of invective, is unsurpassed except by the Second Philippic.’

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Philippic, fil-ip′ik, n. one of the three orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedon, or of Cicero against Marc Antony: any discourse full of invective.—v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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

It shows also that up to this period, a few months previous to the envenomed hatred of the second Philippic, Antony and Cicero were presumed to be on terms of intimate friendship.

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

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