The hand of aninterpolator frequently appears in Strabo (e.
The tradition of a traitorous family of Mayence, which was developed in Italy into a series of stories of criminals, was however anterior to the Carolingian cycle, for an interpolator in the chronicle of Fredegarius states (iv.
Moreover, an interpolator has inserted phrases to remove what would otherwise have been obvious contradictions: thus (a) in chapter vii.
But any one can see that, in the space of thirteen lines, no poet or interpolator who wrote V.
I ventured in 1896 to suggest that the interpolator was trying to please Pisistratus, but this was said in a spirit of mockery.
The texts must have seemed favourable to the fraudulent Athenian interpolator denounced by the Megarians, or he would have altered them.
It does not of course escape us how utterly beyond the reach of a Western interpolator would have been the insertion of the article so faithfully retained to this hour before [Greek: lithon] in ver.
Surely the first object of an interpolator would have been to suit his prophecies to the double advent, and make the second explain the failure of the first.
These texts are internecine, involving contradictions due either to more than one author, or to an interpolator singularly deficient in logical consistency and common sense.
The difficulties which the interpolator would meet in removing a heathen phrase, and composing a Christian half-line in substitution, would be metrical, rather than theological.
Thus the form in which Muellenhoff assumes the poem to have existed before Interpolator A set to work on it, is hardly a credible one.
Interpolator B was responsible for the great bulk of the interpolations: episodes from other cycles and "theologizing" matter.
That it would have been left to an interpolator to supply what from the old point of view was so necessary a part of the story as the return to Hrothgar is an assumption perilous indeed.
Then this Grendel story was finally rounded off by an interpolator (A) who added the account of Beowulf's return home (Sect.
Finally came Interpolator B, who was the first to combine the Grendel story, thus elaborated, with the dragon story.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interpolator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
