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

(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.

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