in antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called, because the bride, returning to her father's house, did απαυλεῖσθαι τον νυμφεύς, 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 contradiction from the first day, which was called πρωσία. On the day called απαυλεῖσθαι (whenever that was), the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called απαυλεῖσθαι.