 Later he worked in the Bernat Metge Foundation ("Fundació Bernat Metge"), specializing in classical studies, and became lecturer in Greek at the Independent University of Barcelona in 1934.Because of his association with Republicanism and Catalan nationalism, he was compelled to flee to Montpellier, France, after the victory of Francoist forces at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.In 1943 he returned to Barcelona, working on translations from classical authors for the Fundació Bernat Metge, of which he eventually became director.