Antiochus IV Epiphanes
The mistake is to identify Antiochus IV as the little horn in the 8th to 12th chapters - that is a mix with the later vision referring to Antiochus.
Remember that Jesus said in Matt 24:15 “So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place... flee to the mountains”. Jesus thus claims the prophecies of Daniel.
Jesus prophesied that the generation listening to Him would see yet another abomination in 70 AD - within 40 years (one generation) of His death.
Nero fits the details of the little horn 7:20 says the little horn shall “speak words against the Most high” - and nero enforced emperor worship.
And the description of the small horn uprooting three others - he killed his wife, Octavia, daughter of Claudius, poisoned Claudius and murdered Britannicus.
Daniel says in 7:25 that the “little horn will wage war against the law for a time, tow times nd half a time” — meaning 3.5 years - the exact duration of the Jewish-Roman war