An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

Then he imagined the laws of Athens questioning him. They had raised him, they said, and for 70 years he had been free to leave. He stayed, so he agreed to obey them or else convince them they were wrong. Running away now would break that agreement.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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