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 (ἀπαυλίζεται τοῦ νύμφου). 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 ἐπίβασις. On the day called ἀνάγκης (whenever that was) the bride presented her bridegroom with a garment called ἀναγκής.