[*] 2965.
πέρ (postpositive and enclitic)
very,
just,
even. Cp. Epic
πέρι very much, and
περί in composition. In Attic prose
πέρ is common only with relatives (338 c) and conjunctions.
ὅσπερ the very one who (i.e.
none other),
οἷός περ just such,
ἔνθα περ just where,
ὥσπερ just as, in the very way in which, (sometimes not very different from
ὡς, to which it is related as
ὅσπερ to
ὅς),
εἴπερ if really.
καίπερ (Hom.
καὶ . . . περ)
however much, though, Epic
ἠέ περ just as.
a. After other words especially in Epic and Lyric and in Aeschylus; as ““
μένει τὸ θεῖον δουλίᾳ περ έν φρενί”
the divine power remains in the mind though it be enslaved”
A. Ag. 1084,
μάχετ᾽, ἀχνύμενός περ ἑταίρου he fought, (
though)
sore grieving for his comrade P 459,
ὀψέ περ howbeit late Pind. Nem. 3. 80.
