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Philipʹpic

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A severe scolding; an invective. So called from the orations of Demosʹthenes against Philip of Macedon, to rouse the Athenians to resist his encroachments. The orations of Cicero against Anthony are called “Philippics.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Phigalian Marbles
Philadelphia Stones
Philander (in Orlando Furioso)
Philandering
Philanthropist (The)
Philemon and Baucis
Philip
Philip Nye (in Hudibras)
Philip Quarl
Philippe Egalité
Philippic
Philippins
Philips (John)
Philisides
Philistines
Philistines
Philistinism
Phillis
Philoclea
Philoctetēs
Philomel or Philomela

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Philippic