ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended as well as a kind of commemorative tribute to an outstanding Vergil scholar of our time. References to Nicholas Horsfall have been and will be ubiquitous in Vergil studies. At line 149 in the Eleventh Book King Evander hastens from Pallanteum towards the Trojan procession bringing back the lifeless body of his only son. The passage as a whole (139–181) is emotionally a peak in the first third of Book 11 and in that respect among the strongest scenes in the epic narrative as well. Dolor is the intense emotion which has filled Evander from the start of the scene and which is predominant throughout. To begin with dolor is an obstruction which suppresses his voice for some considerable time; the shock of Pallas’s death has paralyzed him, then, as it may happen with a loving father, he recovers his ability to speak and can give vent to his feelings.
