Historical records document Rome's construction spanning centuries—the piecemeal development of infrastructure, the evolution of architectural styles, the accumulation of structures. The adage acknowledges the temporal requirement: Rome wasn't built in a day. Yet the alternate claim proposes not construction but deconstruction, not addition but subtraction. To level a city within seconds requires not engineering but annihilation—a force so overwhelming that it renders temporal frameworks irrelevant. The implication isn't skill but catastrophic capacity.