The charge of heathenism we find in Suidas is probable enough; that is to say, Tribonian may well have been a crypto-pagan, like many other eminent courtiers and litterateurs of the time (including Procopius himself), a person who, while professing Christianity, was at least indifferent to its dogma
crypto הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד