[1] Both are Ionic dialect forms (polih/ths occurring regularly, for example, in Herodotos), though the feminine polih=tis occurs only in grammatical works (e.g. Herodian, Peri prosodias katholikes, 3.1.105.11.
[2] The hexameter line quoted is line 3 of Antipater of Sidon’s epigram; 7.218 in the Greek Anthology; epitaph for Lais (lambda 40), the legendary Corinthian hetaera; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 19) and (vol. II, 52-3). It is quoted in a slightly different form under alpha 1219 a(lizw/nou (sic) and under pi 1457 *peirh/nh. See further extracts from this epigram at alpha 1683, theta 519, theta 588, kappa 751, kappa 1525, kappa 2628, lambda 789, and omicron 51.