 Festus felt that the last four books on Rome's rising power "outweighed the rest", but later Roman historians largely disregarded the "Origins" because it eschewed consular dating and highlighted his own political career so heavily.Livy pointedly remarked that Cato was "not the man to minimize his own achievements".In the present day, the "Origins" is considered to be the beginning of proper historiography in Latin and considered to have been an important work in the development of Latin literature.