One of the earliest known examples of knitting was finely decorated cotton socks found in Egypt in the end of the first millennium AD.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil
In the Middle Ages, Virgil was considered a herald of Christianity for his Eclogue 4 verses (Perseus Project Ecl.4) concerning the birth of a boy, which were read as a prophecy of Jesus' nativity.
Also during the Middle Ages, as Virgil was developed into a kind of magus, manuscripts of the Aeneid were used for divinatory bibliomancy, the Sortes Virgilianae (Virgilian lottery), in which a line would be selected at random and interpreted in the context of a current situation (Compare the ancient Chinese I Ching). The Old Testament was sometimes used for similar arcane purposes.
In some legends, such as Virgilius the Sorcerer, the powers attributed to Virgil were far more extensive.
It is said that the Chiesa della Santa Maria di Piedigrotta was erected by Church authorities to neutralize this adoration and "Christianize" the site. The tomb, however, is a tourist attraction, and still sports a tripod burner originally dedicated to Apollo, although the tripod is not original to the site.
"Omnia vincit amor "
"Love conquers all"
(Ecl.10.69)
- Ómnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori.
- Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
- Book X, line 69
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/230/230-h/230-h.htm#book10
