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 του πυρᾶς, 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 πρυμᾶ. On the day called απαυλᾶ (whenever that was), the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called απαυλᾶ.