(Ἄτταλος), a physician at Rome in the second century after Christ, who was a pupil of Soranus, and belonged to the sect of the Methodici. He is mentioned by Galen (de Meth. Med. 13.15. vol. x. p. 910, &c.) as having mistaken the disease of which the Stoic philosopher Theagenes died.
[W.A.G]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890