praeter-mĕo, āre, v. n. and a., to go by or past (poet. and post-class. prose): saepe salutantum tactu praeterque meantum (in tmesi), Lucr. 1, 317: amoenitas locorum invitet praetermeantem, Ambros. in Luc. 4, 2.
With acc.: stellas (of comets), Sen. Q. N. 7, 6, 1: quos (tractus) praetermeat Ister, Amm. 31, 8, 6; 14, 8, 10: ripas, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 234.