Sense

1. as it were

Examples

• ἐγὼ γὰρ αὖ ἐδόκουν ἀκούειν τινῶν ὅτι τὰ μὲν πρῶτα οἱονπερεὶ στοιχεῖα, ἐξ ὧν ἡμεῖσ τε συγκείμεθα καὶ τἆλλα, λόγον οὐκ ἔχοι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 360:7)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.