Jussu tyranni pro fide. Nicolas le Tourneaux. [St. John at the Latin Gate.] Appeared in the Cluniac Breviary, 1686, p. 188, and the Paris Breviary, 1736, as the hymn at Lauds for the Feast of St. John, Ante Portam Latinam. It is also in several modern French Breviaries; Card. Newman's Hymni Ecclesiae, 1838 and 1865; and J. Chandler's Hymns of the Primitive Church, 1837, No. 45. It is translated as:—
1. John, by a tyrant's stern command. By I. Williams. Published in his Hymns Translated from the Parisian Breviary, 1839, p. 203, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. It has been repeated in a few hymn-books, including the English Hymnal, 1852 and 1861, &c.
2. An exile for the faith. By E. Caswall. Published in his Lyra Catholica, 1849, p. 289, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines and again in his Hymns & Poems, 1873, p. 195.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)