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οὕτως: emphatic, ‘with that proviso’ (D. and V.). πράττοντες is quite satisfactory: cf. λέγει τε καὶ πράττει 564 D. Richter should not have proposed ταράττοντες. ὅπῃ δύνανται κτλ.: ‘in any way they can.’ Their opportunities of public action in self-defence are limited; hence they form e.g. secret associations and the like. On the tense of ἔσχον see 548 D note, and for the statement itself (αἰτίαν—ὀλιγαρχικοί) many passages in Aristophanes, e.g. Wasps 488 ff. and others quoted by Whibley Pol. Part. in Athens p. 65 note 3.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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