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de parricidio causa dicitur, etc. An instance of a universi generis oratio, or statement in general terms ; Greek θέσις. A charge of parricide is being preferred : yet no reason is given by the accuser why the son should have murdered the father. See Cic. Topica, § 79; Orator, § 46; and cf. de Imp. Pomp. § 28 sqq. his levioribus; his implies these that we all know so well. neque levi coniectura res penditur, is not weighed by means of careless conjecture; i.e. mere guesswork does not influence the decision. incertus, untrustworthy, whether as to his knowledge of the facts, or as to the chance of his telling the truth. ingenio, according to the accuser's ability, according as he has framed his accusation well or ill. Haec cum sint omnia, though all these circumstances be present. expressa sceleris vestigia, the footprints of the crime: cf. § 47, note. per quos, by what agent?: cf. §§ 74, 79.
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