Life in China
Posted by M. on
Teiresias:
I have gone free.  It is the truth sustains me.

Sophocles
-Oedipus Rex
From the Harcourt edition 1939 translation by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, transcribed exactly.  One really wants to insert that presummed missing word; 

Teiresias:
I have gone free.  It is the truth [that] sustains me.

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