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Cato the Elder, who did the demonstration as part of a bizarre and enduring campaign to ensure Carthage would be destroyed in which he applied every conceivable argument on the subject.
Eventually, it was a legal (if technical) violation of their last peace treaty which moved Rome to declare the third and final Punic War.