Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

For sure the milder planets did combine On thy auspicious horoscope to shine . . . And then, if ever, mortal ears Had heard the music of the spheres

Zoidberg: Aw, I’ll never recombobulate this ship!

But the whole circumstances of the Latrocinium, where everything was done to degrade Constantinople by Dioscurus, render it impossible to attach any weight to a statement of this kind ...