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διαμ-περές , Adv.,
I. of Place, through and through, right through, c. gen., “δ. ἀσπίδος” Il.12.429, cf. 20.362; “δ. στέρνων” S.Ph.791: c. acc., “βέβληαι κενεῶνα δ.” Il.5.284; δ. οὖς prob. in A.Ch.380 (lyr.); “δ. διὰ μέσου τοῦ [σφονδύλου]” Pl.R.616e.
2. abs., without break, continuously, “ἐκ κεφαλῆς . . δ. ἐς πόδας ἄκρους” Il.16.640; “πέτρη ἠλίβατος . . δ. ἀμφοτέρωθεν” Od.10.88; “σταυροὺς . . ἔλασσε δ. ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα” 14.11; ἡ δ᾽ [the wall] ἕσπετο πᾶσα δ. all in a piece, Il.12.398.
II. of Time, throughout, for ever, Od.8.245, Hes.Th.402, Emp.17.6; pleon., “ἤματα πάντα δ.” Il.16.499, cf. Supp.Epigr.1.409 (Eretria); “αἰὲν διαμπερές” for ever and aye, Il.15.70. (Found in tmesi “διὰ δ᾽ ἀμπερές” 11.377, 17.309; cf. ἀμπερέως: poet. for δι-ανα-περές （πείρω）.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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