prope, paene (almost, nearly, but not quite): fere, ferme (with omnes, etc.: prope, paene, make a positive assertion; fere, ferme, decline doing this; it being either enough for the speaker’s purpose, or all that his knowledge allows him to do, to state that the assertion is at least approximately or generally true): tantum non (μόνον οὐ, ὀλίγου δεῖ: an elliptical form used by Liv. and later writers = “only this is wanting, that not,” etc.): propemodum (what is not far removed from the right measure: “almost what it should be”). When, almost = “within a little,” it may be translated by haud multum or non longe afuit, quin, etc. (not ut); prope erat or factum est, ut, etc.: propius nihil factum est, quam ut. etc. I almost believe, non longe abest (not absum) quin credam: the left wing was almost defeated, prope erat ut sinistrum cornu pelleretur.