Let us get him convicted, and, as a parricide, sewed up alive in a bag and thrown into the river"-- as some of us have perhaps seen cats drowned, for such was the punishment--"and then he at least will not disturb us." It must have thus been that the plot was arranged.
It was a plot so foul that nothing could be fouler; but not the less was it carried out persistently with the knowledge and the assistance of many.

Erucius, the accuser, who seems to have been put forward on the part of Chrysogonus, asserted that the man had caused his father to be murdered because of hatred.

The father was going to disinherit the son, and therefore the son murdered the father.

In this there might have been some probability, had there been any evidence of such an intention on the father's part.

But there was none.