πως,
Ionic dialect κως, enclitic adverb of Manner, in any way, at all, by any means, οὐ μέν π. ἅλιον πέλει ὅρκιον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.158, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.392 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλλὰ μὴ γένοιτό π. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1249 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare οὔπως, μήπως: frequently after other adverbs of Manner, ὧδέ π. somehow so, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄλλως π. in some other way, [[ [prev. author] “An.” 3.1.20; τεχνικῶς π. [prev. work] 6.1.5 ] Refs]; εὐσχημόνως π. [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.3.9 ] Refs]; sometimes merely to qualify their force, when it cannot be always rendered by any one English equivalent, ἀεί π. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.211 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μάλα π[[. 14.104, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μόγις π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 328d, etc.: with Verbs, καὶ ἔτυχέ κως τοῦ μάγου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78, compare 150 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ γὰρ κάταγμα τυγχάνω ῥίψασά π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 695; ἠθάς εἰμί π. τῶν τῆσδε μύθων [prev. author] “El.” 372; πράσσοντές π. ταῦτα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπώκνησάν π. [[ [prev. author] 3.20; frequently after γάρ, ἔνεστι γάρ π... τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 226, compare “Ch.” 958 (Lyric poetry), etc.: most frequently after hypothet. Particles, εἴ πως 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.460 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐάν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1770 (_anapaest meter_), “Tr.” 584 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤν π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 399 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: expressing uncertainty, I suppose, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95, 3.108. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]