ὡσπερεί
or ὥσπερ εἰ, adverb just as if, with indicative, ὥσπερ εἰ παρεστάτεις [[4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1201; with _optative_, ὥσπερ τις εἴ σοι.. μηδὲν διδοίη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 776 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ὡσπερεὶ φάναι to say 'as it were', [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 32.3] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ὅμοια ὥ. εἰ.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with Nouns or parts., as it were, ὡ. ψῆτταν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 115; ὡ. προκείμενον [prev. author] “Ec.” 537; ἃ ὡ. στοιχεῖα τῶν ἄλλων ἐστί 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 422a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ or ὡσπερανεί (properly elliptical for ὥσπερ ἂν ἦν, εἰ.., or the like), [[ [prev. author] “Grg.” 479a, “Prt.” 311b, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.148, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ὥσπερ αἰκ ἐξ ἑνὸς κελεύματος κεχάναντι they gape as it were 'by numbers' [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ οὖν ἂν εἰ with imperfect, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 420c: compare ὥσπερ 1.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]