ὡς εἰπεῖν ἔπος
From LSJ
Ἑκὼν σεαυτὸν τῇ Κλωθοῖ συνεπιδίδου παρέχων συννῆσαι οἷστισί ποτε πράγμασι βούλεται. Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον → Be willing to give yourself up to Clotho, letting her spin to whatever ends she pleases. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory (Marcus Aurelius 4.34f.)
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
