Hodegos (Viae Dux)
· Anastasius of Sinai
· c. 640-700 (7th c.)
· other
Greek · domain: monastic · researched 2026-11-13
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo returns only the 1606 Greek-Latin edition (Ingolstadt), a 1909 Greek edition (Avraamides), and K.-H. Uthemann's German-language studies (2015, 2017); no English translation of the Hodegos was located. The English translation of Anastasius's hagiographic 'Tales of the Sinai Fathers' (in Caner et al., History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai, Liverpool, 2010) does not include the Hodegos.
Included as the major untranslated work of a Greek monastic author of Sinai; the Hodegos is doctrinal rather than ascetic in content.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). The editio princeps is Gretser's Ingolstadt 1606 Greek-Latin edition, which Migne PG 89 reprints, its headnote reading '(Gretser., Opp. t. XIV, p. 4 ed. 1740)'. Both are on IA: the 1606 print is public domain and has page images but its OCR of 17th-c. Greek type is worthless (measured, not assumed); the 1857 Migne reprint has the best text layer (function-word rate 0.124-0.151, κ→χ defect only), so PG 89 is the ingestion candidate and the 1606 scan is the witness copy for collation. Migne's columns interleave the Greek text with Gretser's Latin notes and scholia, so extraction must separate text from apparatus.
GET https://archive.org/metadata/patrologicursus105migngoog -> 200 (volume 89, 967 images, 1857, NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT). Text derivative (6,915,033 bytes, HTTP 200) has the TOC line 'Viæ Dux adversus Acephalos, ex editione J…
Found by advancedsearch title:'Anastasii Sinaitae' (3 hits); the record reads 'Hodegos, seu Dux viae aduersus Acephalos: nunc primum ... graece [et] latine editus', Ingolstadii 1606. GET https://archive.org/metadata/bub…