[ Sure it counts and he wouldn't be too offended since that dog is down in the Underworld as far as he knows. Or he was last time Nico had been down to visit. ]

I've found most Roman undead anything are quite unpleasant - especially if you don't have a Roman praetor to give them orders. Even I have trouble with them. [ And don't get him started on the people who'd been in Pompeii when the volcano erupted. ] Can't say I have experience trying to raise Egyptian dead so I'll take your word for it.

[ Oh whoops... did he just accidentally let it slip that he can raise the dead? ]