APAULIA, in antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called, because the bride, returning to her father's house, did απαυλισθᾶν τὸ νυμφίον, lodge apart from the bridegroom. Some will have the apaulia to have been the second day of the marriage, viz. that whereon the chief ceremony was performed; thus called by way of contradistinction from the first day, which was called προαυλίας. On the day called απαυλίας (whenever that was), the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called απαυλίστην.