He takes them as possessions, sometimes cherishing them and sometimes sacrificing them as assets in order to attain new goals.
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 dogmas and rites, cherishing a sentimental recollection of the older and more glorious days of the empire.
They were still heathens, cherishing bitter hatred towards the Franks, whom they regarded as the enemies both of their liberties and of their religion; and their hatred found expression, not only in expeditions into Frankish territory, but in help willingly rendered to every German confederation which wished to throw off the Frankish yoke.
Cherishing the privilege of 1156, they made treaties with foreign kings, and arranged marriages with the great families of Europe.
Artaud fully rejected realism in the theater, cherishing a vision of a stage of magical beauty and mythical power.
