James Adam, The Republic of Plato

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ὥσπερ φόνου κτλ. See cr. n. καί before καθαρόν is absent from the great majority of MSS and can scarcely, I think, be sound: for the difference in meaning between καθαρόν and μὴ ἀπατεῶνα is hardly enough to carry off the double καί. ὥσπερ belongs to the whole expression φόνου καθαρόν, which is virtually one word. Hartman would expunge καὶ μὴ ἀπατεῶνα ἡμῶν, but it is quite in Plato's way to subjoin the interpretation of a metaphor or simile (cf. 470 C, VIII 553 D, 555 D, and my note on Prot. 314 A), nor have we any right to excise such expressions wholesale, as many Dutch critics would do (especially J. J. Hartman de embl. in Pl. text. obviis 1898).

ἐκεῖ: viz. in cases of φόνος ἀκούσιος (so Schneider, Stallbaum, etc.), not (with D. and V.) ‘in the next world.’ κἀνθάδε is relevant only if it means ‘in this case too,’ i.e. ἐν τῷ ἀπατεῶνα εἶναι καλῶν τε καὶ ἀγαθῶν κτλ.: and this fixes the meaning of ἐκεῖ.

ὡς ὁ νόμος λέγει is explained by Dem. πρὸς Πανταίνετον 58 καὶ γὰρ ἀκούσιοι φόνοι—καὶ πολλὰ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα γίγνεται: ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως ἁπάντων τούτων ὅρος καὶ λύσις τοῖς παθοῦσι τέτακται τὸ πεισθέντας ἀφεῖναι, and ib. 59. See also Laws 869 E.