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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 ...

, 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 b ...

(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 , ...

, an independent co-educational school in Cambridge, England *

Stephen Perse Foundation The Stephen Perse Foundation is a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden for students aged 1 to 18. The Foundation is made up of 3 nurseries (2 in Cambridge and 1 in Saffron Walden, Essex) for ages 1–5, 2 Junior Schoo ...

, a family of independent schools in Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England *

Stephen Perse Stephen Perse (1548 – 30 September 1615) was an English academic and philanthropist, who founded schools that still carry his name. Biography He was probably educated at Norwich School (educational institution), Norwich School, and took h ...

, 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 i ...

, 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 of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea. The family Fasciolariidae probably appeared about 110 million years ago d ...

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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 Administrative divisions of Latvia, 2021 Latvian admi ...

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 ci ...

, a tributary to Daugava River

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