An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

Twice he stood alone anyway. On the city council he voted against trying a group of generals together, which was illegal. When the Thirty ordered him to fetch a man named Leon to be killed, he went home instead.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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