Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.in any way, at all, by any means, “οὐ μέν π. ἅλιον πέλει ὅρκιον” Il.4.158, cf. Od.20.392; ἀλλὰ μὴ γένοιτό π. A.Ag.1249; cf. οὔπως, μήπως: freq. after other Advbs. of Manner, ὧδέ π. somehow so, X.Cyr.3.3.7; ἄλλως π. in some other way, Id.An.3.1.20; τεχνικῶς π. ib.6.1.5; εὐσχημόνως π. Id.Cyr.1.3.9; sometimes merely to qualify their force, when it cannot be always rendered by any one English equivalent, ἀεί π. Il.12.211; μάλα π. 14.104, X.Cyr.4.5.54; μόγις π. Pl.Prt.328d, etc.: with Verbs, “καὶ ἔτυχέ κως τοῦ μάγου” Hdt.3.78, cf. 150; τὸ γὰρ κάταγμα τυγχάνω ῥίψασά π. S.Tr.695; “ἠθάς εἰμί π. τῶν τῆσδε μύθων” Id.El.372; “πράσσοντές π. ταῦτα” Th.2.3; ἀπώκνησάν π. Id.3.20; freq. after “γάρ, ἔνεστι γάρ π . . . τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα” A.Pr.226, cf. Ch.958 (lyr.), etc.: most freq. after hypothet. Particles, “εἴ πως” Od.14.460; ἐάν π. S.OC1770 (anap.), Tr.584; ἤν π. Ar.V.399: expressing uncertainty, I suppose, Hdt.1.95,3.108.

II. πως, πῶς, or πώς, in a certain way, opp. ἁπλῶς, Arist.Pol.1275a16; “οὐδ᾽ ὁ ἁπλῶς ὀργιζόμενος, ἀλλ᾽ ὁ πῶς” Id.EN1106a1; ἀλλὰ πῶς πραττόμενα καὶ πῶς νεμόμενα δίκαια ib. 1137a12.

2. πὼς μὲν . . , πὼς δὲ . . in one way . . , in another . . , Iamb.Comm.Math.13, Them.in de An.4.25-28,al.; “πῶς μὲν . . , ὅλως δὲ . . ” Arist.Pol.1263a26. (πῶς is Adv. of stem πο- (I.-E. q[uglide]o-), whence ποῦ, ποῖ, πῇ, etc.)