What Does Being Stoic Mean?

Stoicism came to have a little ess in a way that really you don't see with many philosophies. So what does being stoic mean? Because, i mean, at a high level, it sort of, like, it does appear to embrace the suck. That kind of is one strand of stoicism, which is, try to manage your debilitating emotions. But it's not the only because if you really read more deeply, the stoics, with a big s, have the most sophisticated emotion theory there is in the ancient world. They're essentially belief theorists about emotion. And under those for everything falls essentially, and they get the body going as well as the mind.