philippic in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ fi'lipik ] ]
Examples
- I quote long sections of their writing because there is otherwise no way to get the flavor of their philippic.
- According to Cicero's assertion in the second Philippic, Mark Antony himself struck the blow that killed him.
- Demosthenes describes the conquest of Oreus by Philip II of Macedon in his 341 BC " Third Philippic ".
- It was against Philip that Demosthenes, the greatest Greek orator, directed his diatribes, the " Philippics ".
- As Emden still continued his philippics against Eybesch�tz, he was ordered by the council of the three communities to leave Altona.
- In September he began attacking Antony in a series of speeches he called the Philippics, in honour of his inspiration Demosthenes.
- The proverbial Philippic attacks of the Athenian orator Demosthenes ( ) on Philip II of Macedon marked the height of ancient political agitation.
- In September Cicero began attacking Antony in a series of speeches he called the Philippics, in honour of his inspiration, Demosthenes.
- Further insight into Didymus'methods of writing was provided by the discovery of a papyrus fragment of his commentary on the Philippics of Demosthenes.
- Also in 342 BC, he delivered the " Third Philippic ", which is considered to be the best of his political orations.