Every entry in the Goetia gives a legion count, and Paimon's two hundred is the largest in the book. The figures are worth taking seriously as data about the text, if not as data about anything else.
They cluster tightly. Most spirits command twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty or thirty-six legions, and those four values alone account for well over half the catalogue. The outliers are few: Bifrons has six, Valefor ten, Purson twenty-two, Belial eighty, Beleth eighty-five, Paimon two hundred. Asmoday commands seventy-two, which is the number of the catalogue itself and is unlikely to be accidental.
The counts do not track rank. Purson is a king with twenty-two legions; Sabnock is a marquis with fifty. They do not track position in the list. They do not add to any round total. And a legion, in the Roman sense the word carries here, is several thousand men, so the arithmetic implied by the catalogue as a whole runs to millions, which is roughly what Weyer's brazen-vessel passage claims when it speaks of above a thousand thousand legions.
What the numbers most resemble is the population figures in a chronicle: circumstantial detail supplied to make a list feel like a survey rather than an invention. The repetition of the same handful of values across dozens of entries suggests they were filled in by pattern rather than derived from anything.
That Paimon holds the maximum, and that the entry describes him as most obedient to Lucifer with a host of musicians going before him, places him near the top of whatever order the text is imagining. The text never draws the order out. It supplies the pieces from which a reader might assemble one, and leaves them unassembled.