We know no mithridatum of despair as drunks, the angry penguins of the night, straddling the cobbles of the square tying a shoelace by fogged lamplight.
I'd never heard of mithridatum. It is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to have been created by Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus in the 1st century BC. (Wikipedia)
