πέρ : enclitic particle,
giving emphasis or prominence to an idea, usually to what immediately
precedes it, very, at least, even, just, etc. ἐπεί μ᾽ ἔτεκές γε μινυνθάδιόν περ
ἐόντα, ‘for a very short life,’ Il. 1.352, 416, Il. 3.201; here belongs
the use with participles denoting opposition (concession), so καίπερ, where πέρ
itself of course does not mean ‘although,’ but the
logical relation of the part. is emphasized, οὔ
τι δυνήσεαι ἀχνύμενός περ | χραισμεῖν, ‘however
distressed,’ ‘distressed tho’ you
be,’ i. e. though very distressed, Il. 1.241
. πέρ is freq. appended to other
particles, conditional, temporal, etc., and to all relative words,
ὡς ἔσεταί περ (ὥσπερ), ‘just as,’ Od. 19.312
; ἔνθα περ, εἴ περ, ‘that is
if’; ἐπεί περ, see ὅσπερ.