Do you mind if I turn on the radio?

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

There is the negative thanatolatry of resisting death at all cost and so bowing before death's domination, before death as extermination.

He not only seized former Seleucid Iran, but added Mesopotamia to the Parthian Empire.