DOWNES (D [o] UNAEUs), ANDREW (c. English classical scholar, was born in Shropshire. He did much to revive the study of Greek at St. John's college, Cambridge, and was elected fellow in 1571. In 1585 he was appointed regius professor of Greek. According to Simonds d'Ewes (Autobiog raphy, ed. J. O. Halliwell, i. pp. 139, 141), who attended his lectures, Downes was accounted "the ablest Grecian of Christen dom." He edited Lysias Pro caede Eratosthenis (i) ; Praelec tiones in Philippicam de pace Demosthenis (1621), dedicated to King James I. ; some letters (in Greek) to Isaac Casaubon, printed in the Epistolae of the latter; and notes to St. Chrysos tom, in Sir Henry Savile's edition. Downes was also one of the seven translators of the Apocrypha for the "authorized" version of the Bible, and one of the six learned men appointed to revise the new version after its completion.