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