just as if, ‘as it were’, as it were
just as if, with indic., ὥσπερ εἰ παρεστάτεις A. Ag. 1201; with opt., ὥσπερ τις εἴ σοι . . μηδὲν διδοίη S. OC 776; τὸ ὡσπερεὶ φάναι to say ‘as it were’, Longin. 32.3; ὅμοια ὥ. εἰ . . X. Smp. 4.37: with Nouns or parts., as it were, ὡ. ψῆτταν Ar. Lys. 115; ὡ. προκείμενον Id. Ec. 537; ἃ ὡ. στοιχεῖα τῶν ἄλλων ἐστί Pl. Cra. 422a.
II as it were
ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ or ὡσπερανεί (prop. elliptical for ὥσπερ ἂν ἦν, εἰ . . , or the like), Id. Grg. 479a, Prt. 311b, Isoc. 4.148, X. Cyr. 1.3.2; Dor. ὥσπερ αἰκ ἐξ ἑνὸς κελεύματος κεχάναντι they gape as it were ‘by numbers’ Sophr. 25; ὥσπερ οὖν ἂν εἰ with impf., Pl. R. 420c: cf. ὥσπερ I.2.