ὡς εἰπεῖν ἔπος
From LSJ
Ζῆν οὐκ ἔδει γυναῖκα κατὰ πολλοὺς τρόπους → Nullam esse decuit feminam multis modis → Kein Leben steht der Frau aus vielen Gründen zu
Greek > English (Woodhouse)
almost, as the saying is, for instance, not to make a short matter long, one may say, practically, roughly speaking, so to say, so to speak, to say it in a word, to use a figure of speech, we may say, what is more