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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

at'-a-lus: King of Pergamum, mentioned in 1 Macc 15:22 among the kings to whom was sent an edict (Ant., XIV, viii, 5) from Rome forbidding the persecution of the Jews. See ATTALIA.