one of aglaia 's girls had just reported she was pregnant , and it was too late , aglaia thought after a cursory examination , to do anything about it , so up went the costs of her establishment ( and she 'd nearly hit kallisthenes when he suggested there was nothing wrong with the time-honoured custom of infanticide by exposure ) ; kallisthenes had heard that a distant cousin he particularly disliked had taken advantage of his prolonged absence in rome to take over his father 's estate ; and then tarquin had heard about servius ' latest edict on the army , and that seemed the third and worst stroke of bad fortune on what was anyway an unlucky day in the calendar .