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διὰ τὸ παντοδαπὰς -- ἔχειν. As the λέξις itself is full of variety, it requires for its proper or appropriate (οἰκείως) expression every variety of mode and rhythm or musical time. μορφὰς τῶν μεταβολῶν is surely good enough Greek: I cannot see the point of Richards' μορφὰς ἐκ τῶν μεταβολῶν, still less why Hartman should eject τῶν μεταβολῶν or— as an alternative—μορφάς. ἐπιτυγχ άνουσιν = ‘hit upon,’ ‘stumble upon,’ as if by accident and ἄνευ νοῦ, not ‘succeed,’ as J. B. Mayor is disposed to construe (Cl. Rev. X p. 109). The same scholar proposes to change ξυγκεραννύντες into ξυγκεκραμένῳ, but the text is much more idiomatic as it stands.
The Republic of Plato. James Adam. 1902. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.
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