# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin/English Sancti/08-29.txt's own # [Ant 1] — the Lauds-hour antiphon, not Terce's. id: decollation-of-st-john-baptist-antiphon text: la: "Misso Heródes * spiculatóre, præcépit amputári caput Joánnis in cárcere. Quo audíto, discípuli ejus venérunt, et tulérunt corpus ejus, et posuérunt illud in monuménto." en: "Herod sent * an executioner, and commanded that John's head should be cut off in the prison. When they heard thereof, his disciples came and took up his body and laid it in a tomb." status: la: verified en: verified