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[618] διαμπερές, for good and all, cf. 10.89, 331, 15.70, 17.499, 22.264. εἴ . . περ, if indeed, if only. This is of course not to be confused with the somewhat commoner sense of “εἴ περ”, ‘even if.’ In the latter use the particles are always together, in the former, since “περ” emphasizes the clause rather than the single word, they are generally separated; but this is by no means an invariable rule; compare 1.580 “εἴ περ γάρ κ᾽ ἐθέληισι”, if indeed he wish, 13.464, etc. (In 11.391 “καὶ εἴ κ᾽ ὀλίγον περ ἐπαύρηι, περ” is to be taken with “ὀλίγον”, even if it touch but a very little.)

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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