A different way of drawing the gladius

[Arius]

There is only one depiction of a soldier with a horizontal Pugio and that is at the front.

There is another one; Cnaeus Musius, eagle bearer of the 14th, appears to be wearing a dagger horizontally on his right side (but the hilt is to the front). Reconstruction artists, for some reason, prefer to show it as a sword hanging vertically, but that's evidently not what is being portrayed on the stone.

- Harry