It seems that Socrates's consort was at times misrepresented.
A favorite passage from Tom Holt's The Walled Orchard (the last page):
I remember going to see him in prison while he was awaiting execution, and the poor fool still believed that he would be reprieved, right down to the last moment, when they handed him the cup of poison. He has become very fashionable since his death, and people have started writing down those great long one-sided conversations he used to have with people who couldn't get away in time.