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

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

He then goes on in the Philippic to read a letter which Antony had sent to Hirtius and to young Cæsar, and which they had sent on to the Senate.

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

Cicero, in his eighth Philippic, expostulated with them on their timorous and impolitic lenity of expression.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

So he ended the sixth Philippic, which, like the fourth, was addressed to the people.

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