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Persa (play) ''Persa'' ("The Persian") is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Unusually in this play, the lover is not a wealthy young man helped by a cunning slave, but the cunning slave himself. In order to repay the mo ...

, a comedy by the Roman playwright Plautus *

Perse (mythology) In Greek mythology, Perse (Ancient Greek: , ') is one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Her name was also spelled as Persa, Persea or Perseis (, '). Perse married Helios, the god of the sun, and bo ...

(also Persa or Perseis), an Oceanid and consort of Helios in Greek mythology *

The Perse School (He who does things for others does them for himself) , established = , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent day school , religion = Nondenominational Christian , president = , head_label = Head , he ...

, an independent co-educational school in Cambridge, England * Stephen Perse Foundation, a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England * Stephen Perse, the founder of The Perse School *

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative ...

, a French diplomat and poet *

Broderie perse Broderie perse (French for "Persian embroidery") is a style of appliqué which uses printed elements to create a scene on the background fabric. It was most popular in Europe in the 17th century, and probably travelled from India, as there are so ...

, a sewing technique * ''Perse'', a genus of fossil snails in the family

Fasciolariidae The Fasciolariidae, common name the "tulip snails and spindle snails", are a family (biology), family of small to large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. The family Fasciolariidae probably appe ...

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Virachola perse ''Deudorix perse'' (formerly ''Virachola perse''), the large guava blue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. The larva feeds on ''Randia dumetorum '' ...

'', a species of butterfly * A river and a waterfall in

Koknese Koknese () is a town in Aizkraukle Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the right bank of the Daugava River. It has a population of nearly 3,000. According to the provisions of the 2021 Latvian administrative reform, Koknese gained ...

manor park, Aizkraukle District, Latvia *

Pērse Pērse is a right tributary to the river Daugava in Latvia, flowing through Ērgļi, Pļaviņas and Koknese municipalities. The river crosses roads A6, P79, P80 and Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city o ...

, a tributary to Daugava River

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