If our date for him, which is very problematical, is right roughly, then by certainly 700 B.C.

如果我们追溯他所处的时代的话,大概是在公元前700年,当然这有待确认

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but they're just so different and like, he was way ahead of his time, really.

但它们同中有异，他确实走在他所处的时代的前面。

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