apocatastasis

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning return of the stars
Literal translation restoration
Variants
apocatastasis
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return of the stars astronomical event

to the place of the previous year (or the previous Great Year)

praesertim cum CCC milibus annorum maior apocatastasis, id est redintegratio, per pyrosin aut per cataclysmum fieri consueverit

‘the return of the stars to their places after fire and flood is supposed to happen only after 300,000 years.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 3.1.9

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.93

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). apocatastasis (Lemma #1058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). apocatastasis (Lemma #1058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). apocatastasis (Lemma #1058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) apocatastasis (Lemma #1058), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1058,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {apocatastasis ({Lemma} #1058)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1058/},
}