The Gods confound you! PALAESTRIO That befits yourself, since you began the conversation.SCELEDRUS By chance, as it happened, I looked down there through the skylight, into the next house; and there I saw Philocomasium toying with some strange young man, I know not whom.PALAESTRIO What scandalous thing is this I hear of you, Sceledrus?SCELEDRUS I’ faith, I did see her, beyond a doubt.PALAESTRIO What, yourself? SCELEDRUS Yes, I myself, with these eyes of mine.PALAESTRIO Get away, it isn’t likely what you say, nor did you see her.SCELEDRUS Do I, then, appear to you as if I were purblind?PALAESTRIO’Twere better for you to ask the doctor about that. But, indeed, if the Gods only love you, don’t you rashly father thisRashly father this: Tollas fabulam.This metaphor is borrowed from the custom among the Romans of laying the new-born child upon the ground upon which it was taken up (tollebatur) by the father, or other person who intended to stand in the place of parent to it. idle story. Now are you breeding thence a fatal dilemma for your legs and head; for, in two ways, the cause is contrived for you to be ruined, unless you put a check upon your foolish chattering.