I'd prefer 10 months, alternating 35 and 36 days. But I guess there had to be more Emperors than 10. (the months are called after Emperors)
The only months named after emperors are July and August.
I'm not entirely sure about Roman times specifically, but the number 12 was used a lot more in the past (hence words like "dozen") because it's easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, and doesn't have nonsense like 10/3 (well, 12/9, but who does that?)
The old Roman calendar had 10 months, which is why "December" comes from Roman "deci" for 10. Herp derp. IIRC they could add an extra "leap month" decided manually, or something. I'd have to look it up how it worked exactly. It was pretty complex and irregular, which is why it was replaced with what we have now. Aside from one minor bugfix it's worked pretty well for about 2,100 years.