ὡς (2) (ψως): I. adv., as, how; answering to τώς, ὥς (ὧς),
οὕτω, τόσσον, Od. 14.44; ‘so surely
as,’ Il. 8.541; often ὡς ὅτε, ὡς εἰ, and used with single words
as well as with clauses. Exclamatory, how!
Od. 16.364, Od. 24.194. — II. conj., (1) temporal, as,
when, always of a fact, with ind., Il. 23.871. — (2) explanatory (like ὅτι), that, Od. 3.346; and causal,
because (=ὅτι οὕτως),
Il. 4.157, Od. 2.233, Od.
17.243.—(3) final, that, in order
that.— (4) idiomatically used in the expression of
a wish, like utinam, Il. 18.107, Il.
3.428.