philippic

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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

The speech against Pantaenetus comes between the speech “On the Peace” and the Second Philippic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

Dear Sir,—I have to thank you for Mr. Pickering's elaborate Philippic against Mr. Adams, Gerry, Smith, and myself; and I have delayed the acknowledgment until I could read it and make some observations on it.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin

She sank gasping into the chair, from which she had risen to hurl her Philippic at Rita's head, and by sheer force of her indomitable will caused a most alarming pallor to overspread her face.

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles

In 1707 he published a large treatise in English and Latin, as "A Philippic Oration, to incite the English against the French," a work I have never seen.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles