For 10 points, name the Roman general who destroyed Carthage in the Third Punic War, an adoptive grandson of the victor of the Second Punic War.
This man received an important command a ter a disgraceful treaty was signed by Gaius Hostilius Mancinus. Ruth Martin Brown argued that this man was at the center of a namesake intellectual "circle" including the writers Lucilius and Terence. During one battle, this general blockaded the Duero River with rotating logs embedded with spearheads, eventually forcing the besieged Celtiberians (kelt-"eye"-BEER-ee-ans) to commit mass suicide. This man's longtime friend, the Greek historian Polybius, accompanied him on the siege of Numantia in Spain. Polybius reports that this man "shed tears" and said "a day will come when sacred Troy will perish" after deserters threw themselves onto a  re in the citadel of Byrsa at the end of a 146 B.C. siege. For 10 points, name the Roman general who destroyed Carthage in the Third Punic War, an adoptive grandson of the victor of the Second Punic War.
This man received an important command a ter a disgraceful treaty was signed by Gaius Hostilius Mancinus.
Scipio Aemilianus [or Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus; or Scipio Africanus the Younger; or Scipio Minor; or anything specifying the younger Scipio; prompt on Scipio; do not accept "Scipio Africanus"]