PHILIPPICS is likewise applied to the fourteen orations of Cicero against Mark Antony. Cicero himself gave them this title in his epistle to Brutus; and posterity have found it so just, that it has been continued to our times. Juvenal, Sat. x. calls the second the divine Philippic, and witnesses it to be of great fame, conspicua divina Philippica fame. That orator's intitling his last and most valued orations after the Philippics of Demosthenes shews the high opinion he had of them. Cicero's Philippics cost him his life; Mark Antony having been so irritated with them, that when he arrived at the triumvirate, he procured Cicero's murder,
Philippines, der, cut off his head, and stuck it up in the very place
Philippine whence the orator had delivered the Philippines.
Islands.