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πρα^πίδες , αἱ, dat.
A.“πραπίσιν” Pi.O.2.94, Ep. πραπίδεσσι (v. infr.):— poet.,
1. = φρένες, midriff, diaphragm, “βάλε . . ἦπαρ ὑπὸ πραπίδων” Il. 11.579, cf. 13.412, 17.349: then, since this was deemed the seat of mental powers and affections,
2. understanding, mind, “ἰδυίῃσι πραπίδεσσι” 1.608, 18.380, etc.; “περὶ μὲν πραπίδες, περὶ δ᾽ ἐστὶ νόημα” Hes. Th.656; as the seat of desire, heart, “ἀπὸ πραπίδων ἦλθ᾽ ἵμερος” Il.24.514; ἔσχεν ἄκοιτιν ἀρηρυῖαν πραπίδεσσιν wins a wife after his own heart, Hes.Th.608; “πάσῃσιν ὀρέξαιτο πραπίδεσσιν” Emp.129.4; πραπίδων πλοῦτος ib.2, cf. Pi.O.11(10).10, P.4.281; Trag. in lyr., “εὖ πραπίδων λαχόντα” A.Ag.380, cf. 802, E.Andr.480: rarely in sg. πραπίς, ίδος, Pi.P.2.61, Fr.109, E.Ba.427 (lyr.), 999 (lyr.); “ἔργον ἐμῆς π.” IG 14.1500.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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