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|txtha=([[διόρθωσις]]) διορθώσεως, ἡ (from [[διορθόω]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], in a [[physical]] [[sense]], a [[making]] [[straight]], restoring to its [[natural]] and [[normal]] [[condition]] [[something]] [[which]] in [[some]] [[way]] protrudes or has got [[out]] of [[line]], as (in [[Hippocrates]]) [[broken]] or [[misshapen]] limbs.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of acts and institutions, reformation: [[καιρός]] διορθώσεως a [[season]] of reformation, or the perfecting of things, referring to the times of the Messiah, [[Aristotle]], Pol. 3,1, 4 (p. 1275{b}, 13); νόμου, de mund. 6, p. 400{b}, 29; (cf. Josephus, contra Apion 2,20, 2); [[Polybius]] 3,118, 12 τῶν πολιτευματων, Diodorus 1,75 τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, Josephus, Antiquities 2,4, 4; b. j. 1,20, 1; others; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 250f).)