Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Βέδιος Πολίο" in Greek language version.
Dr. Federico Poole, an Egyptologist in Naples, points out: 'What is meant here, I think, is the fish we Italians still call by its Latin name of murena: the moray, still feared for its bite by local scuba divers.' To me at least, he seems clearly right. We must chalk 'lamprey' up to translation error by Dr. Cary: only a moray would be large and carnivorous enough to eat a human being.
