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Brewer's: Philippic
A severs scolding; an invective. So called from the orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedon, to rouse the Athenians to resist his encroachments. The orations of Cicero against Anthony are called “Philippies.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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