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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIPPICS , in classical literature, a See also:

series of orations delivered by See also:Demosthenes against See also:Philip of Macedon. The name was applied to the speeches of See also:Cicero against See also:Mark Antony, and " Philippic " has passed into See also:general use in the sense of an impassioned invective or declamation.

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