ἀνακύκλωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλόω (anakuklóō) +‎ -σῐς (-sis); compare ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλησῐς (anakúklēsis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.na.ký.klɔː.sis/ → /a.naˈcy.klo.sis/ → /a.naˈci.klo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.na.ký.klɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.naˈky.klo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.naˈcy.klo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.naˈcy.klo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.naˈci.klo.sis/

Noun

ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλωσῐς • (anakúklōsis) f (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεως); third declension

1. Varia lectio of ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλησῐς (anakúklēsis).
   • C.E. 145–168, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Joachimus Camerarius, editor, Hoc in libro nunquã ante typis æneis in lucem edita hæc inſunt. Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου Πηλουσίεως τετράβιβλος σύνταξις, πρὸς Σύρον ἀδελφόν. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ καρπὸς πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν Σύρον. [Klaudíou Ptolemaíou Pēlousíeōs tetrábiblos súntaxis, pròs Súron adelphón. Toû autoû karpòs pròs tòn autòn Súron.] Claudij Ptolemæi Peluſienſis libri quatuor compoſiti Syro fratri. Eiuſdem fructus librorum ſuorum, ſiue Centum dicta, ad eundem Syrum., Nuremberg: Johannes Petreius (1535), book II: Ἀποτελεσματικὸν Β. [Apotelesmatikòn B.], §: «Περὶ τῆς ποιότητος τȣ͂ ἀποτελέσματος.» [Perì tês poiótētos toû apotelésmatos.], folio 22ᵛ ([1], [2]):

     πρὸς δὲ τὸ περιέχον μᾶλλον ξηρὸς ὢν [ϗ] εὐκίνητος διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν 🜚︎ ἐγγύτητα [ϗ] τὸ τάχος τῆς ἀνακυκλώσεως πνευμάτων ἀτάκτων [ϗ] ὀξέων ϗ̀ εὐμεταβόλων μάλιϛα κινητικὸς ὑπάρχει, βροντῶν τε εἰκότως, καὶ πρηϛήρων καὶ χασμάτων [ϗ] σεισμῶν καὶ ἀϛραπῶν ἀποτελεϛικὸς. τῆς τε δῒ τούτω ἐνίοτε περὶ τὰ τῶν ζώων [ϗ] τῶν φυτῶν εὔχρηϛα φθορῆς ποιητικὸς ὑδάτων τε ϗ̀ ποταμῶν, ἐν μὲν ταῖς δύσεσι ϛερητικὸς, ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς πληρωτικὸς[.]

     pròs dè tò periékhon mâllon xēròs ṑn kaì eukínētos dià tḕn pròs tòn 🜚︎ [hḗlion] engútēta kaì tò tákhos tês anakuklṓseōs pneumátōn atáktōn kaì oxéōn kaì eumetabólōn málista kinētikòs hupárkhei, brontôn te eikótōs, kaì prēstḗrōn kaì khasmátōn kaì seismôn kaì astrapôn apotelestikòs. tês te dï̀ toútō eníote perì tà tôn zṓōn kaì tôn phutôn eúkhrēsta phthorês poiētikòs hudátōn te kaì potamôn, en mèn taîs dúsesi sterētikòs, en dè taîs anatolaîs plērōtikòs.

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2. wheeling about
   • 170 CE – 240 CE, Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 4.2.9:^{[3], [4]}

     ἐπὰν δὲ μέγιστον χῶμα ἀρθῇ τῶν ἀρωμάτων πᾶς τε ὁ τόπος πληρωθῇ, ἱππασία περὶ τὸ κατασκεύασμα ἐκεῖνο γίγνεται, πᾶν τε τὸ ἱππικὸν τάγμα περιθεῖ κύκλῳ μετά τινος εὐταξίας καὶ ἀνακυκλώσεως πυρριχίῳ δρόμῳ καὶ ῥυθμῷ.

     epàn dè mégiston khôma arthêi tôn arōmátōn pâs te ho tópos plērōthêi, hippasía perì tò kataskeúasma ekeîno gígnetai, pân te tò hippikòn tágma peritheî kúklōi metá tinos eutaxías kaì anakuklṓseōs purrhikhíōi drómōi kaì rhuthmôi.

     • 1961 translation by Edward C. Echols^[5]

       After a huge pile of aromatic material is collected, and the structure is completely filled, a cavalry exhibition is staged around the building; the entire Equestrian cavalry circles around it, following a fixed rotating pattern in the Pyrrhic choruses and maneuvers.

3. (politics) cycle of constitutions, anacyclosis
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 6.9.9–10:^[6]

     αὕτη πολιτειῶν ἀνακύκλωσις, αὕτη φύσεως οἰκονομία, καθ’ ἣν μεταβάλλει καὶ μεθίσταται καὶ πάλιν εἰς αὑτὰ καταντᾷ τὰ κατὰ τὰς πολιτείας.

     haútē politeiôn anakúklōsis, haútē phúseōs oikonomía, kath’ hḕn metabállei kaì methístatai kaì pálin eis hautà katantâi tà katà tàs politeías.

     • 1899 translation by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh^[7]

       This is the regular cycle of constitutional revolutions, and the natural order in which constitutions change, are transformed, and return again to their original stage.

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλωσῐς; τῆς ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλωσῐς hē anakúklōsis	τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσει tṑ anakuklṓsei	αἱ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεις hai anakuklṓseis
Genitive	τῆς ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεως tês anakuklṓseōs	τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλωσέοιν toîn anakuklōséoin	τῶν ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεων tôn anakuklṓseōn
Dative	τῇ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσει têi anakuklṓsei	τοῖν ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλωσέοιν toîn anakuklōséoin	ταῖς ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεσῐ / ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεσῐν taîs anakuklṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλωσῐν tḕn anakúklōsin	τὼ ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσει tṑ anakuklṓsei	τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεις tā̀s anakuklṓseis
Vocative	ᾰ̓νᾰκῠ́κλωσῐ anakúklōsi	ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσει anakuklṓsei	ᾰ̓νᾰκῠκλώσεις anakuklṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: anacyclosis
• Greek: ανακύκλωση (anakýklosi)

Further reading

• “ἀνακύκλωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Social cycle theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia