εἴπερ

Ancient Greek

Strengthened form of εἰ (ei, “if”)

εἴπερ • (eíper)

if really, if indeed, even if, even though
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.25
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.117
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.167
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.35
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.225
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 198
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 312A
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 182C
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.81
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1249
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 275E
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.20
- 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 216B
(in Attic, to imply that the supposition agrees with the fact, with the imperfect it implies that it is contrary to the fact)
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.14
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 312

“εἴπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“εἴπερ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“εἴπερ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
εἴπερ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
εἴπερ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
“εἴπερ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G1512 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- if idem, page 414.