- any of the orations delivered by Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, in the 4th century b.c., against Philip, king of Macedon.
- any of the 14 orations delivered by Cicero against Marc Antony (44-43 b.c.).
- any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation.
- a bitter or impassioned speech of denunciation; invective
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