Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 1978. When the subject of the infinitive is the same as the object (in the genitive or dative) of the governing verb, it is often omitted, and a predicate noun is either attracted into the genitive or dative, or stands in the accusative in agreement with the omitted subject of the infinitive. See 1060-1062.

ἔξεστιν ἡμῖν ἀγαθοῖς εἶναι or ἔξεστιν ἡμῖν ἀγαθοὺς εἶναι it is in our power to be good (lit. to be good is possible for us). Thus, δεόμεθ᾽ οὖν ὑ_μῶν . . . ἀκροά_σασθαι τῶν λεγομένων, ἐνθυ_μηθέντας ὅτι κτλ. we ask you therefore to listen to what is said, considering that, etc. 1. 14. 6. Cp. νῦν σοι ἔξεστιν ἀνδρὶ γενέσθαι quoted in 1062 with ““Λακεδαιμονίοις ἔξεστιν ὑ_μῖν φίλους γενέσθαι” it is in your power to become friends to the Lacedaemonians” T. 4.29. The latter construction may be explained as abbreviated for ἔξεστιν ὑ_μῖν (ὑ_μᾶς) φίλους γενέσθαι.