Homily on the Martyr Gordius

In Gordium martyrem · Basil of Caesarea · c. 370-378 · homily

Greek · domain: cappadocian · 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

Homily XVIII of the twenty-four genuine miscellaneous homilies enumerated in NPNF ser. 2 vol. 8 ('XVIII. In Gordium martyrem' in the classified list at https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208/npnf208.vi.ii.v.html), but that volume's own table of contents contains only De Spiritu Sancto, the Hexaemeron and the Letters — no martyr homilies (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208/npnf208.toc.html). The Popular Patristics volume that does translate three of Basil's martyr homilies, On Fasting and Feasts (PPS 50, 2013), has the contents 'On the martyr Julitta; On the holy martyr Mamas; On the martyr Barlaam' and omits Gordius (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,On%20fasting%20and%20feasts%20Basil&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A HOLLIS search 'Gordius Basil' returns no published English translation: the single English item is an 1833 autograph manuscript ('St. Basil's panegyrical oration on the martyr Gordius, tr. From the Greek by H. S. Boyd. Partly in the hand of E.B. Browning'), catalogued as related manuscripts, not a book (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gordius%20Basil&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

The only English rendering traced is the 1833 Boyd/Browning autograph, never published — this is 'none' for published translation, not merely 'not found'. PG 31 ('Basil 3') is cited at volume level (The archive.org item is cited at volume level: it is the Migne volume for this author (PG volume-to-author mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca), but the work's exact place in the volume was not verified page by page.); the homilies are in the Basil volumes PG 29-32.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857) patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_031

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Basil of Caesarea — 828 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 2023 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158718681303941
Basil of Caesarea Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973- · 2018 · eng	Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973-. "Basil of Caesarea." Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153682005403941
Basil of Caesarea Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973- · 2014 · eng	Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973-. "Basil of Caesarea." Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, [2014]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990140230260203941
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 1998 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1998]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153548989103941
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 1994 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990031476870203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Homily on the Martyr Gordius” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-basil-in-gordium