草 must be taken as=荣. 茹 is a word used for 食,applied to eating herbs.
When he became sovereign, and had the embroidered robes to wear, the lute to play, and the two daughters of Yaou to wait on him, he was as if those things belonged to him as a matter of course."
CHAPTER VII
Mencius said, "From this time forth I know the heavy consequences of killing a man＇s near relations.When a man kills another＇s father, that other will kill his father; when a man kills another＇s elder brother,that other will kill his elder brother. So he does not himself indeed do the act, but there is only an interval between him and it."