APAULIA, in antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called, because the bride, returning to her father's house, did apaulizetai te nomia, 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 prædilecta. On the
Ape II Apelles. the day called απαλλα (whenever that was), the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called απαλλοχέτης.