From what source philippic has come into our language?

Question

This is an intense speech that is used to critisize political actors. This word came up in the year 44-43 B.C.

Answer 1

Greek

Answer 2

Phillipic speeches were speeches written and spoken by the athenian political speaker Demosthenes against Phillip.
Phillip the second was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander the 3rd) and king of the greek kingdom of Macedonia. After the civil war that exhausted the greek cities of the south their decadence started - politically and millitaristically. That was the time when the kingdom of Macedonia started growing very strong (Phillip and his father, Alexander the second were wise kings, who brought their kingdom to flourishing.) So it soon became obvious that sooner or later, all of Greece, wich until then was organised in independent cities-states, would be unified under the throne of Phillip. Phillip, beeing raised himself in the democratic city ofThebes for some years and feeling great respect and admiration for Athens and its achievements was at first sort of negotiating, proposing etc and did not force his way over it from the beginning. So a great problematic about the "unification" started in Athens. The were people who felt that the times had changed and found this appealing or the least not avoidable, and others who found it terrible and threatening. Dimosthenes was a great political speaker of Athens who was passionately against Phillip and his plans. He wrote at that time many passionate, angry speeches against Phillip, the phillipic speeches. This is how the word phillipic got to mean until today the expression of passionate, angry and sometimes a little blind or extreme arguments and opinions.