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Philippics (of Demosthenes)
the Philippics
also: Philippicae, the Philippics
The deliberative orations of Demosthenes urging Athens to resist Philip of Macedon, the model of the politically engaged speech. Cicero invokes them as the pattern for his own collected 'consular' speeches.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.1 §3 those speeches which are called Philippics
Demosthenes' orations urging Athens to resist Philip of Macedon, the model of the politically engaged "deliberative" speech. Cicero models his own "consular" corpus on them (and would later name his speeches against Antony Philippics).