Perilla

By one of his earlier wives, he had a daughter who imitated the paternal example by marrying twice.

One of the letters from exile is addressed to Perilla, probably his stepdaughter, the daughter of his third wife.

The letter reveals a delightful intimacy between Ovid and the girl.

he had encouraged her in the old days to write verse and had acted as her kindly critic the life of our poet we see is bisected like the life of cassiodorus and of boccaccio it is natural to divide ovid's poetry and his temperament into two halves one gay and active one sombre and depressed But though exile was a grim reality of horror to Ovid, his genius was steady and normal in its development, and his strength was only gradually unnerved by the catastrophe of his latter days.

He promises his loyal wife an immortality in song with Alkestis and Andromache.

And, let us not forget, with Corinna.

One of the letters is to the maiden Perilla, probably the poet's stepdaughter.

She is sitting by her mother's side, busy, he hopes, with those studies that once he had shared with her.

That's a great story.

There's another company in China, in Taiwan, that's working with a substance called Perilla.

P-E-R-I-L-L-A.

It's a variety of mint leaf.

And she'd argue with him, and she'd basically flip him the bird and move on to the next zucchini.

Don't mess with the Perilla women.

No, she was Sabatini, but don't mess with the Sabatini women, definitely.

Well, I'm glad that we made this happen.