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Why is the subject in the infinitive clause in accusative case?

Dorippa: Nulla femina me miserior vivit, Sannio. Melius est me mortuam esse quam sine amicis in hac urbe vivere!"
Sannio: Quid ais: 'sine amicis'? Nuper non modo Lepidus...

Why is mē mortuam accusative? Is it the general case for the pattern?

[ADJ] est [SUBJECT] [INF]