A.restoration, re-establishment, “τοῦ ἐνδεοῦς” Arist.MM1205a4; εἰς φύσιν ib. 1204b36, 1205b11; return to a position, Epicur.Ep.1p.8U.; esp. of military formations, reversal of a movement, Ascl.Tact.10.6, etc.; generally, “πάντων” Act.Ap.3.21; of the soul, Procl.Inst.199 (pl.); “τῆς φύσιος ἐς τὸ ἀρχαῖον” Aret. CD1.5; recovery from sickness, Id.SA1.10; “τῶν ὁμήρων εἰς τὰς πατρίδας” Plb.3.99.6; εἰς ἀ. ἐλθεῖν, of the affairs of a city, Id.4.23.1; return to original position, Ascl.Tact. 10.1; ἀ. ἄστρων return of the stars to the same place in the heavens as in the former year, Plu.2.937f, D.S.12.36, etc.; periodic return of the cosmic cycle, Stoic.2.184,190; of a planet, return to a place in the heavens occupied at a former epoch, Antioch.Astr. ap. Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.120,121; but, zodiacal revolution, Paul.Al.T.1; opp. ἀνταπ. (q. v.), Doroth. ap. Cat.Cod.Astr.2.196.9; restoration of sun and moon after eclipse, Pl.Ax.370b.
ἀποκατά-στα^σις , εως, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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