Julius Africanus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Extant Fragments of the Chronography… (1885)
“ At least so thinks Syncellus.↑ On this terebinth, see Scaliger (ad Græca Euseb., p. 414) ; Franciscus Quaresimus, in Elucid. terræ sanctæ; Eugenius Rogerius, etc.; and also Valesius, ad Euseb. De Vit. Constant., iii. 53, notes 3 and 5.↑ Scaliger acknowledges himself ignorant of this word ἐκτενας. In the Eastern Church it is used to denote protracted prayers (preces protensiores) offered by the deacon on behalf of all classes of men, and the various necessities of human life. ”
