Short answers, pulled from the story.
Victoria first appeared during the First Punic War as a Romanized renaming of Nike. This Greek goddess of victory was already familiar to the Roman military through their allies in Magna Graecia and mainland Greece.
In 294 BC she received a temple on the Palatine Hill where war-booty was stored. Her cult images show her as a winged woman stepping forward supported on a globe.
Her image appeared on coins minted between AD 65 and 318 showing her association with supreme gods like Jupiter. This political symbolism transformed her from a simple personification into an instrument of state authority.
He had Victoria's altar removed from her temple at the Curia Julia in 382 despite widespread anger among officials. Previous removals by Constantius II had been reversed after protest but this time the altar remained gone.
Winged figures representing victory often appear in pairs hovering high within architectural compositions. These winged victories filled spaces in spandrels or other gaps in Roman arches rather than functioning as full deities.