Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale 1.14.2 · 1.14.2
A pitiful sight at sea
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Ἦν δὲ τὸ θέαμα ἐλεεινόν, τῶν μὲν ἐν τῇ τριήρει ἀναγομένων τῶν δὲ ἐν τῇ νηὶ φλεγομένων τὰς χεῖρας ἐκτεινόντων καὶ ὀλοφυρομένων.
It was a pitiful sight: those on the warship were sailing away, and those on the ship were burning, stretching out their hands and lamenting.
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The setting
Book 1, chapter 14. The pirates' warship pulls away from the burning ship.
A note on this passage
ἐλεεινός, "pitiful," comes three times in this chapter: for the scene here, for the old tutor (1.14.4), and in the superlative for what Habrocomes feels when the tutor dies (1.14.6). Pity and fear, says Aristotle, are the feelings that tragedy works through (Poetics 1449b27).
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