  We study a `dressed' or `composite' quark in strongly-coupled N=4
super-Yang-Mills (SYM), making use of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that
the standard string dynamics nicely captures the physics of the quark and its
surrounding quantum non-Abelian field configuration, making it possible to
derive a relativistic equation of motion that incorporates the effects of
radiation damping. From this equation one can deduce a non-standard dispersion
relation for the composite quark, as well as a Lorentz covariant formula for
its rate of radiation.
