Third Punic War The Third Punic War, 149–146 B.C., originated,
like the others, in a deliberate Roman aggression, the result of
agitation by Cato the Elder for the destruction of Carthage.
Charging Carthage with a technical breach of treaty in resisting
the encroachment of the Numidian king Masinissa (a Roman ally),
Rome declared war and blockaded the city. Carthage never
surrendered. The younger Scipio (Scipio Africanus Minor)
conquered it, house by house, and sold the surviving inhabitants
into slavery. The city was razed and its site plowed up. The
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