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continuation of the previous page's argument: "which indeed he affirms in the aforementioned place in Lipsius, two things become clear to us..."
While you perhaps wander restlessly,
Juvenal, in the noisy Suburra,
Or wear down the hill of the mistress Diana;
While your sweaty toga beats against you
Before the thresholds of the more powerful, etc.
Otherwise, Julius Scaliger writes that Juvenal is to be preferred to all satirists, including Horace himself: and Lipsius asserts that nothing more true was written by him.