Revelation 17:12-13

This political application of the ten horns probably means either the Parthian satraps of Revelation 16:12, reckoned in round numbers, who occupied a royal position in the estimation of the East (so, e.g., Eichhorn, de Wette, Bleek, Bousset, Scott, J. Weiss, Baljon, Wellhausen), or (“chefs d'armée,” Havet) the governors of the (ten senatorial) provinces, holding office for (μίαν ὥραν) one year (so Ewald, Hilg., Hausrath, Mommsen, B. Weiss, Hirscht, Briggs, Selwyn, B. W. Henderson [“the number may be derived from Daniel. In any case it is a round number, and the seer did not go round counting the number of the Roman provinces”]), unless it is to be left as a vague description of the allies (Weizs., Holtzm., Swete). Philo (de leg. ad Caium xxxiv.) notes the facilities possessed by proconsuls for starting revolutions, especially if they commanded powerful armies such as those stationed on the Euphrates to protect Syria.