637 Ὥσπερ is a strengthened ὡς, used only in a relative and comparative sense--even as, just as. Ὥσπερ clauses are therefore
like simple sentences:
Ὥσπερ ἵππος εὐγενὴς ἐν τοῖσι δεινοῖς θῡμὸν οὐκ ἀπώλεσεν,
ὡσαύτως δὲ σὺ ἡμᾶς ὀτρνεις even as a horse of noble blood does
not lose heart ([465](file:///x:/Departments/Classics_Texts/schoolgrammarofa00goodrich_porson/HTML%20Files/Chapter-465.html)) in danger, so thou dost spur us on. S. E. 25.