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- ↑ Galen, De Medendi Methodo, Seu de Morb. Curandis (De Methodo Medendi) 13.15. vol. x. p. 910, &c.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Attalus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 412.