Ancient Greek

Conjunction

καίπερ • ‎(kaíper)

1. although, albeit
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.224
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.70
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.577
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.125
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.135
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.555
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.4
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.6
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 199.2
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 907
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 712
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 377
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 495.D
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1326
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.247
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.104
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1141
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 647
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 4.36
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219.C

Usage notes

Sometimes has a word in between it, always in Homer.

References

• καίπερ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• καίπερ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «καίπερ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• καίπερ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2539”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • although idem, page 26.
  • however idem, page 408.
  • though idem, page 868.