Possible Clues:

• Dreadful cost I accepted uncomplaining
• Follower of the philosopher Epictetus
• Giving nothing away, in a way
• Uncomplaining disciple
• Impassive type going in bus to ice-rink
• I'll get stuck in the bank endlessly, a long-suffering type
• Not easily flapped
• Immovable
• Repeated passage of tortoise divides as in the original Zeno?
• Able to endure pain