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<p>[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 8087932, member: 112342"]I was looking up on Vesta and the temple's sacred fire being kept alive for centuries by Vestal Virgins, and that the flame should never let to die, and if it did it's a bad omen for the city and the empire, and the Virgin/s responsible for that would be severely punished. And to make a new fire, you can not simply take a flame from another source, but it has to be 'clean' straight from the sun as the source, for that some sort of glass magnifier was to be used. Since the flame is supposed to be 'eternal', I wondered what happened to it, and came to know that Theodosius I ended the College of Vestals and basically killed the fire, and for some reason it really made me pissed (He's already one of my least favourite emperor).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405348[/ATTACH]</p><p>I don't have any Theodosius coins, but have a couple of Vesta,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405349[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1405350[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="JayAg47, post: 8087932, member: 112342"]I was looking up on Vesta and the temple's sacred fire being kept alive for centuries by Vestal Virgins, and that the flame should never let to die, and if it did it's a bad omen for the city and the empire, and the Virgin/s responsible for that would be severely punished. And to make a new fire, you can not simply take a flame from another source, but it has to be 'clean' straight from the sun as the source, for that some sort of glass magnifier was to be used. Since the flame is supposed to be 'eternal', I wondered what happened to it, and came to know that Theodosius I ended the College of Vestals and basically killed the fire, and for some reason it really made me pissed (He's already one of my least favourite emperor). [ATTACH=full]1405348[/ATTACH] I don't have any Theodosius coins, but have a couple of Vesta, [ATTACH=full]1405349[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1405350[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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