Both Uses of
approximate
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- Dr. Gerland, in his Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee, his shown that the story makes part of the collection of Somadeva, a store of Indian tales, of which 1200 A.D. is the approximate date.†
Book Intr. *approximate = almost, but not exact
- The date at which the poet of the Odyssey lived may be approximately determined by his consistent descriptions of a peculiar and definite condition of society, which had ceased to exist in the ninth century B.C., and of a stage of art in which Phoenician and Assyrian influences predominated.†
Book Intr.approximately = about (but not exactly)
Definition:
almost, but not exact; or similar