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,[…].

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

Do you mind if I turn on the radio?

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