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It is with great sadness that we received the news that Leslie Threatte (1943–2021) passed away in Athens, Greece, on March 25, 2021. A classical scholar with a firm grasp of linguistics, he was educated at Oberlin College before moving to Harvard to undertake a PhD under the supervision of Sterling Dow. He was a member of the Department of Classics at UC Berkeley from 1970 until his retirement in 2002. During these 32 years, he taught a variety of courses on Greek and Latin at all levels. Together with W. Kendrick Pritchett, Ron Stroud and Sara Aleshire, he played a major role in establishing Berkeley as one of world’s foremost centers of Greek epigraphy. After his retirement, although he kept his house near Berkeley, he spent most of his time in his beloved Athens, which effectively became his second home. He had first visited Athens in 1965 and was the Seymour Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1966–67.