Republican era pugio suspension

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Hello, I am aiming for a Late Republican era impression, somewhere around the Gallic Wars, maybe earlier. I have a question/issue about pugio suspension. I have seen an image of a Roman soldier, possibly centurion carrying his pugio horizontally. Most reenactor impressions I see have their pugio vertical. With the pugio that I have, I have to carry it horizontally, because of the way the rings are, unless I thread a cord through the small hole that you can see in the image to hang it vertically. I have made my suspension straps so that it hands at more of a diagonal to keep the pugio from slipping out if I bend over. Does this look o.k., or should it be higher up, or vertical?

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