The word itself was never used by the Stoic philosophers According to Bible scholar William Barclay, long  suffering is the very opposite of Greek virtue, which vaunted among other things the refusal to tolerate any insult or injury
कारण ग्रीकांच्या मते “कोणत्याही प्रकारचा अपमान किंवा अन्याय खपवून न घेणे ” हा खरा सद्‌गुण आहे.