Translations
For, by doing this, Diogenes, Heraclitus and others like them, deservedly became, and were called, divine.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
For, by thus doing, Diogenes and Heraclitus, and others like them, deservedly became divine, and were so recognized.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
For by acting thus Diogenes and Heracleitus and those like them were deservedly divine, and were so. called.George Long (1890)
For by so doing Diogenes and Heraclitus and men like them were called divine and deserved the name.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)