# Loeb Philippics print a campaign of public hatred against Antony that feeds civil war

Date: 1926

## The fact

Loeb/Perseus Philippics are a completed oratorical war on [Mark Antony](/people/mark-antony). Polarising elite speech in a failing republic is the path. The 43 killing is another row.

## Context

Anti-tyrant speech can be a gain (improving row) and a civil-war accelerant.

[Cicero](/people/cicero) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, museum, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Perseus — Cicero, Philippics (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0011; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Printed Philippics are a polarisation path, not a 44 BCE tape.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Cicero: https://factrail.ai/people/cicero

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0011
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cicero

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cic-philippics-civil-war-polarisation