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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Second of Time

(A). The sixtieth part of an hour was called by the Romans scrupulum, and the sixtieth part of a minute was scrupulum secundum

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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