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  1. Because the night is dark and full of terrors.
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  2. The eternal flame was extinguished by order of Emperor Theodosius I in 391 AD. In that occasion Serena, wife of Stilicho, took a necklace from a statue of Rhea Silvia and placed it on her own neck. Even if, by then, the population of Rome was largely Christian, the people saw that as a profanation and Celia Concordia, the last Vestal virgin, crying, invoked a curse on her and her descendants (Stilicho was executed on Honorius' orders in 408. Serena was accused of conspiring with the Goths, and was executed a year later with her son Eucherius. Her daughter Termanzia died soon after).
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