Here he broke off, and began a new work entitled The Philippics, in fifty-eight books.

They are documents, as indispensable as the Olynthiacs or Philippics, for his own political career.

Herennius cut off his head and the hands, pursuant to the command of Antonius, with which he wrote the Philippics.

While he was speaking his Philippics they could not but be243 enthusiastic on the same side.