DOWNES [D (o)UNAEUS],

See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

ANDREW (c. 1549-1628)  , English classical scholar, was born in the county of Shropshire . He was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge, where he did much to revive the study of Greek, at that time at a very low ebb . In 1571 he was elected fellow of his college, and, in 1585, he was appointed to the regius professorship of Greek, which he held for nearly forty years . He died at Coton, near Cambridge, on the 2nd of February 1627/1628 . According to Simonds d'Ewes (Autobiography, ed . J . O . Halliwell, i. pp . 139, 141), who attended his lectures on Demosthenes and gives a slight sketch of his personality, Downes was accounted " the ablest Grecian of Christendom." He published little, but seems to have devoted his chief attention to the Greek orators . He edited Lysias Pro caede Eratosthenis (1593) ; Praelectiones in Philippicam de pace Demosthenis (1621), dedicated to King James I.; some letters (written in Greek) to Isaac Casaubon, printed in the Epistolae of the latter; and notes to St Chrysostom, 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 .