 Plutarch concludes with a contrast between Promathion's version of Romulus' birth and that of the more credible Fabius Pictor which he describes in a detailed narrative and lends support to.Dionysius of Halicarnassus recounts a local story regarding the birth of king Servius Tullius.In it, a phallus rose from the hearth of Vesta in Numa's palace, and Ocresia was the first to see it.