 Some have argued that if it were not for the impact of Cato's writing, Latin might have been supplanted by Greek as the literary language of Rome.He was also one of the very few early Latin authors who could claim Latin as a native language.The two surviving collections of proverbs known as the "Distichs of Cato" and the "Monosticha Catonis" probably belong to the 4th century AD and are not works of Cato the Elder.