GRICE E GREGORIO: L'ARTE GRAMMATICA DEGL'ANGELI

 The grammatical structure of Latin of the seventh to eighth centuries had changed in comparison with the Latinitas of the fourth century. Although Bede builds his argument on the Grammar textbooks of Antiquity, he adopts Gregory the Great’s directive to subject the grammar rules to the language of the Scriptures and not to ancient Grammar textbooks. GREGORY THE GREAT, Moralia in Iob, PL 75, col. 516: ‘quia indignum uehementur existimo, ut uerba caelestis oraculi restringam sub regulis Donati’ (‘I consider it strongly unworthy to restrict the words of divine revelation to the rules of Donatus’).