Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges

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[*] 1058. When the substantives denote both persons and things, a predicate adjective is—a. plural, and follows the gender of the person, if the person is more important, or if the thing is treated as a person: γρᾴδια καὶ γερόντια καὶ ““πρόβατα ὀλίγα καὶ βοῦς καταλελειμμένους” old women and old men and a few sheep and oxen that had been left behind” X. A. 6.3.22, ““ἡ τύχη καὶ Φίλιππος ἦσαν τῶν ἔργων κύ_ριοι” Fortune and Philip were masters of the situation” Aes. 2.118,

b. or is neuter plural if the person is treated like a thing: ““ἡ καλλίστη πολι_τεία_ τε καὶ ὁ κάλλιστος ἀνὴρ λοιπὰ ἂν ἡμῖν εἴη διελθεῖν” we should still have to treat of the noblest polity and the noblest man” P. R. 562a.