Etymology and Definition
The Liddell and Scott Lexicon entry (with expansion of definitions and references), gives the following examples of usage:
- ἀποκατάστᾰσις, εως, ἡ, restoration, re-establishment;
- “τοῦ ἐνδεοῦς” Aristotle MM, 1205a4; into its nature εἰς φύσιν id. 1204b 36, 1205b 11;
- return to a position, Epicurus, Epistolae, 1, p.8 U.;
- especially of military formations, reversal of a movement, Asclepiodotus, Tacticus, 10.1, 10:6, etc.; :generally
- of all things “πάντων” Acts, 3.21;
- of souls, Proclus, Institutio Theologica, 199.
- of the body back into its old form “τῆς φύσιος ἐς τὸ ἀρχαῖον” Aretaeus Medicus CD 1.5; recovery from sickness, SA 1.10;
- “τῶν ὁμήρων εἰς τὰς πατρίδας” Polybius 3.99.6; εἰς ἀ. ἐλθεῖν, into the restoration of the affairs of a city, 4.23.1;
- Astrological uses:
- ἀ. ἄστρων return of the stars to the same place in the heavens as in the former year, Plutarch 2.937f, Diodorus Siculus 12.36, etc.;
- periodic return of the cosmic cycle, Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta 2.184,190;
- of a planet, return to a place in the heavens occupied at a former epoch, Antiochus Atheniensis Astrologus ap. Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.120,121; but, zodiacal revolution, Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus Paul.Al.T.1; opposite: antapocatastasis ἀνταπ. (q. v.), Dorotheus Astrologus Doroth. ap. Cat.Cod.Astr.2.196.9;
- restoration of sun and moon after eclipse, Plato Axiochus370b.
The word is reasonably common in papyri.
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