"Steady, Aldebaran. I haven't forgotten you! No. You are the swiftest, but you must be steady!"

^{- Sheik llderim in Ben Hur}

"My swift fellow. You must not win the race the first time around. You win the last time around. And you cannot win alone... you must wait for the others."

^{- Judah Ben Hur in Ben Hur}

"... and he whom thou goest to now is Aldebaran, the youngest of the brood, but none the worse of that--no, not he! Against the wind he will carry thee till it roar in thy ears like Akaba; and he will go where thou sayest, son of Arrius--ay, by the glory of Solomon!, he will take thee to the lion's jaws, if thou darest so much!"

^{- Ben Hur in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace}

"This one," he shook a rein over the back of the youngest of the four--"you called him Aldebaran, I believe--is the swiftest; in once round a stadium he would lead the others thrice his length."

^{- Ben Hur in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace}

"This one is thine," said the Arab. Ben-Hur looked, and, lo! it was Aldebaran, the swiftest and brightest of the sons of Mira..."

^{- Ben Hur and Arab Guide in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace}