Cicero’s speech is, as I say, enormously long. Hours long. It tears the Tituses’ case to pieces, exposing their bizarre behaviour and the total lack of means, motive and opportunity presented by the prosecution. Cicero outlines his theory about the criminal conspiracy to steal Roscius’ house in a level of detail that deeply upsets the other side. But mostly he talks about how the charge of patricide is so horrific that it stains the accusers to have made a false accusation of such.
