APAULIA, in Greek Antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called because the bride, returning to her father's house, lodged apart from the bridegroom (ἀπαυλιζέσθαι τὸ νυμφίον). 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 προαύλια. On the day called ἀπαύλια (whenever that was) the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called ἀπαυλιανόια.