ὡσπερεί or ὥσπερ εἰ,
Adv. 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 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 1.2.
G5619 — ὡσπερεί
(ὥσπερ and εἰ (Tdf Proleg., p. 110)), adverb, from Aeschylus down, as, as it were: [1Co 15:8].