 Crito, a wealthy Athenian friend of Socrates, has bribed the jailers and prepared means for Socrates to escape from Athens, but Socrates refuses on the grounds that to do so would be to damage the laws wrongfully, and this violates his  bedrock principle  that one must never do wrong, even in return for a wrong. When Crito appeals to popular opinion on the matter, Socrates replies that the only authority he would accept on the matter would be that of someone who is expert on the matter at hand, which is how doing right and doing wrong affect the most important part of a person. This is analogous to how health and disease affect the body. Socrates is looking for an expert who is analogous to a doctor, whose specialty is moral health and corruption. In the absence of such an expert, however, he must make up his own mind.