But surely an Interpolator must have been aware that this was their attitude from the outset.
"The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study"
William Heaford Daubney
But Merkel, followed by Palmer, considered 31-38 an interpolation; and aeripedes may have been what the Interpolator wrote.
"The Last Poems of Ovid"
Ovid
353. It does not matter whether the passage is quoted by Strabo himself or by an Interpolator.
"Religion and Art in Ancient Greece"
Ernest Arthur Gardner