- *Autoi*
- nominative, masculine, plural, intensive pronoun - yourselves
- *gar*
- postpositive conjunction - for/because
- *oidate*
- perfect indicative, active, 2nd plural - you know
- *pōs*
- interrogative adverb - how
- *dei*
- present indicative, active, 3rd singular, impersonal - it is necessary
- *mimeisthai*
- present infinitive, middle/passive - to imitate
- *hoti*
- conjunction - because/that
- *ouk*
- negative particle - not
- *ētaktēsamen*
- aorist indicative, active, 1st plural - we were disorderly/idle
- *en*
- preposition + dative - among