Maybe he just wanted to use the term Sybil.

yeah, nobody talks about "eclipse" attacks much, and yet I think that general terminology is closer in this case.

I must admit however that I've gotten a little sick of how each new protocol and attack get some fanciful name. It's cute for the first few decades, although after a while the stale names pile up and chaff search results, forcing people to use "smarter" searches like Google Scholar, or even just petitioning some domain authority and not actually bothering with a real search.