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praeterire

praeterire is a Latin form of praetereo, meaning “go past, pass by; pass over, omit; (praeteritus) past”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.103: … rmittenda existimem. fatebor etiam illud invitus, me prorsus, cum iste punctum temporis nullum vacuum peccato praeterire passus sit, omnia quae ab isto commissa sint non potuisse cognoscere. quapropter ita me de praeturae criminib …

Seneca the Younger, De Brevitate Vitae 20.4: Praeterire quod mihi occurrit exemplum non possum: Turannius fuit exactae diligentiae senex, qui post annum nonagesimum, …

All forms of praetereo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.