and lighting the city on fire. Rome would not be sacked again for 800 more years, until Alaric led his band of Visigoths down through Italy. Not even Hannibal with his elephants and his military genius breached its walls.
The eventive use of destruction implies that the concept merges with V, which creates an event on an argument (Rome), and which is then merged with v, creating an initiation by Hannibal of the event, this then categorized as a noun, with identity criterion, i.e. with singular number (...