GLORIA. Glory. - This word, which appears for the first time on a coin of Probus, in conjunction with Orbis (see below), and is repeated with wearisome frequency on coins of the lower empire, is interpreted by Vaillant to mean - "manifestatio virtutis et recte factorum per hora hominum divulgatio" - (the manifestation of valor, by the tongues of men.) For example, the Glory of the Army - the Glory of the Roman people - the Glory of the Romans - the Glory of the world. Yet never was glory more boasted of by those Romans than when the once proud empire of the Caesars was with the greatest rapidity hastening to decay and ruin.